TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - Low social interactions in eating disorder patients in childhood and adulthood: A multi-centre European case control study JO - Journal of health psychology A1 - Krug, Isabel A1 - Penelo, Eva A1 - Fernández-Aranda, Fernando A1 - Anderluh, Marija A1 - Bellodi, Laura A1 - Cellini, Elena A1 - di Bernardo, Milena A1 - Granero, Roser A1 - Karwautz, Andreas A1 - Nacmias, Benedetta A1 - Ricca, Valdo A1 - Sorbi, Sandro A1 - Tchanturia, Kate A1 - Wagner, Gudrun A1 - Collier, David A1 - Treasure, Janet SP - 26 EP - 37 VL - 18 IS - 1 N2 - The objective of this article was to the examine lifestyle behaviours in eating disorder (ED) patients and healthy controls. A total of 801 ED patients and 727 healthy controls from five European countries completed the questions related to lifestyle behaviours of the Cross-Cultural Questionnaire (CCQ). For children, the ED sample exhibited more solitary activities (rigorously doing homework [p<0.001] and watching TV [p<0.05] and less socializing with friends [p<0.05]) than the healthy control group and this continued in adulthood. There were minimal differences across ED sub-diagnoses and various cross-cultural differences emerged. Reduced social activities may be an important risk and maintaining factor for ED symptomatology.

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LA - en SN - 1359-1053 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105311435946 ID - ref1 ER -