Depression mediates the relationship between obsessive–compulsive symptoms and eating disorder symptoms in an inpatient sample

Self-harm history predicts resistance to inpatient treatment of body shape aversion in women with eating disorders: The role of negative affect

“…Similarly, the lack of data regarding inter-rater reliability of the eating disorder diagnoses from the proprietary assessment protocols is also a limitation. Although the Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating Disorders facility has become a rich source of data for researchers in recent years, and its diagnostic procedures have provided researchers with diagnostic data that have been used to examine various eating disorder related issues, including (but not limited to) rates of eating disorder comorbidity (e.g., Blinder et al, 2006), relationships between eating disorders and internalizing disorders (Kim et al, 2012), and effectiveness of adjunctive eating disorder treatments (Zuercher et al, 2003), evidence of inter-rater reliability of the eating disorder diagnoses would offer greater confidence in the diagnostic-specific findings. Although body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness are indeed core symptoms of eating disorders, they are not exclusively so.…”

Comparison of Perfectionism and Related Positive-Negative Dimension in People With High Traits on Obsessive Compulsive and Eating Disorder Characteristics

“…These valuable ideas about weight and food serve as obsession that comes with ritual behavior that are normally observed in anorexia nervosa, and may have some overlaps with OCD. Therefore, the two categories of eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder had the highest comorbidity ( 5 , 13 , 14 ); inflexible pervasive perfectionism is a common feature of both of them ( 15 , 16 ). In its abnormal form, perfectionism is closely associated with eating disorders ( 16 - 20 ) and obsessive-compulsive disorder ( 21 - 25 ).…”