Adherence
A cumulative risk index of adolescent psychosocial and behavioral factors (depression, BID, dieting, EWLB) predicts higher odds of eating pathology in young adulthood, with gender-specific patterns.
If you or your adolescent child has multiple risk factors for eating disorders (depression, body image distortion, dieting, extreme weight loss behaviors), the risk of developing eating pathology in young adulthood increases significantly. This risk is cumulative and varies by gender. Addressing multiple risk factors early may be more effective than focusing on a single one.
Among women, each additional W1 symptom was associated with 1.3–1.7 times increase in odds of each of the four outcomes (dieting, EWLB, binge eating symptoms, and ever being diagnosed with an ED). Among men, each additional symptom was associated with 1.3 times the odds of dieting and 3.2 times the odds of ED diagnosis at W3
Why this rating
Large longitudinal sample, prospective design, statistically significant results for cumulative risk.
Source
Longitudinal predictors of dieting and disordered eating among young adults in the U.S.
Janet M. Liechty et al. · International Journal of Eating Disorders · 2013
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