Public perceptions of binge eating and its treatment

Mond, Jonathan; Hay, Phillipa

doi:10.1002/eat.20512

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“…An open-ended item, adapted from Mond and Hay (2008), asked participants to indicate what they believed Alex's 'main problem' was. Following this, participants were provided with eleven potential causes of Alex's problem and asked to rate their importance on a 5-point scale from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree'.…”

Section: Understanding Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Public attitudes to cases of BED are particularly interesting, due to the relatively recent establishment of this diagnostic category. Levels of public awareness of BED are low (Mond & Hay, 2008). As such, the disorder might not be afforded the same legitimacy as more established disease categories.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Thus, boys may face particularly severe social or emotional barriers to divulging eating concerns. Although girls also perceive EDs as disabling and shameful, evidence suggests that for some women, this can be tempered by a belief that it 'might not be too bad' to have an ED, due to its signification of discipline and attainment of the thin ideal (Mond & Hay, 2008;Mond, Hay, Rodgers, Owen, & Beumont, 2004;Roehrig & McLean, 2010). Mond and Marks' (2007) study of Australian schoolgirls suggests that this representation of EDs as desirable begins in adolescence.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, the disorder might not be afforded the same legitimacy as more established disease categories. Additionally, because individuals with BED are often overweight, they face the double stigma of obesity and mental illness (Mond & Hay, 2008). Furthermore, BED is more common among men than AN or BN (Smith, Marcus, Lewis, Fitzgibbon, & Schreiner, 1998;Hudson et al, 2007), which means that the gender dynamics at play in attitudes to BED are likely to be distinctive.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Eating disorder literacy and stigmatising attitudes towards anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder among adolescents

O’Connor

McNamara

O’Hara

et al. 2016

Advances in Eating Disorders

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Little research has investigated adolescents' understanding of eating disorders (EDs) or attitudes towards people affected by EDs. This impedes the development of targeted health promotion interventions. In the current study, 290 adolescents viewed a vignette depicting a target with either Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, Depression or Type 1 Diabetes. Subsequent questionnaires assessed understanding of and attitudes towards the disorder described. Adolescents recognised the symptoms of depression significantly more frequently than any ED. Relative to depression and Type 1 diabetes, participants held targets with EDs more personally responsible for their illness and ascribed them more negative personality characteristics. The data revealed a particularly unfavourable view of Binge Eating Disorder, which was conceptualised as a failure of self-discipline rather than a medical condition. The results confirm previous findings that EDs are more stigmatised than other mental or physical health conditions and extend the findings to an adolescent cohort.

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Section: Understanding Of the Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eating disorder literacy and stigmatising attitudes towards anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder among adolescents

O’Connor

McNamara

O’Hara

et al. 2016

Advances in Eating Disorders

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“…(1) Diagnosis: open-ended items were adapted from Mond & Hay (2008). After reading the vignettes, respondents were asked to indicate what they believed Morgan's 'main problem' was and the steps they would typically take in order to diagnose Morgan's problem.…”

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Stigma and treatment of eating disorders in Ireland: healthcare professionals’ knowledge and attitudes

McNicholas

O’Connor²,

O’Hara

et al. 2015

Ir. j. psychol. Med.

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Objectives. This study examines aspects of healthcare professionals' knowledge and attitudes about eating disorders (EDs), which might impede the effective detection or treatment of EDs in Ireland.Methods. A total of 1,916 healthcare professionals were invited to participate in a web-based survey. Participants were randomly allocated to view one of five vignettes depicting a young person with symptoms consistent with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, depression or type 1 diabetes. Study-specific questions examined participants' responses to the vignettes and ED knowledge and experience. Conclusions. This study recommends that specific attention should be given to EDs in professional educational programmes across healthcare disciplines. This training should not be restricted to improving healthcare professionals' knowledge of EDs, but should also strive to increase service-providers' awareness of how their own potentially stigmatising attitudes can undermine engagement with treatment.

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