Eating disorders
Description
Wikipedia: An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating behaviors that adversely affect a person's physical or mental health.
Evaluation
Evaluation of the Eating Disorders Medicare Benefit Schedule items
This process and outcome evaluation of the Eating Disorders Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) items aimed to understand if it is meeting the needs of those delivering and receiving the services. It found people who had received treatment reported significantly lower levels of eating disorder symptoms after treatment. Wholesale retention of the current items is recommended.
Journal article
The significance of the father-daughter relationship to understanding and treating bulimia nervosa: a hermeneutic phenomenological study
Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a highly researched eating disorder, yet real world recovery rates remain poor and incidence continues to rise. This study provides a focused exploration of the father-daughter relationship where BN emerges, in order to explore this relationship’s significance to the aetiology of BN and to BN’s resistance to CBT-based treatment. A hermeneutic...
Report
Designing for disorder: Instagram's pro-eating disorder bubble in Australia
This report describes findings from a survey of 16 to 17-year-old Australians, finding widespread exposure to content promoting extreme weight loss and unhealthy diets on Instagram. It highlights the algorithmic amplification of eating disorder content on Instagram, and how it profits from this practice.
Report
Wellbeing Health and Youth Commission: 2021 youth health research and policy priorities and concerns
This report is the product of workshops held earlier in the year, and includes not only the key areas of concern, but recommendations on how these can be addressed by research, policy and health services.
Report
New Zealand’s mental health and addiction services - February 2018
The Mental Health Commissioner, Kevin Allan, says New Zealand needs to broaden its focus from mental illness and addiction to mental well-being and recovery in his 2018 monitoring and advocacy report.