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Arab countries

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Eating disorders in the Arab world: a literature review [2020]

Asia

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The rise of eating disorders in Asia: a review [2015]

Australia

• Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
  • Prevalence and correlates of addictive eating behaviours in a large cohort of Australian adolescents [2023]

• Australian Family Physician
  • Early detection of eating disorders in general practice [2017]

• BMC Psychiatry
  • Prevalence of DSM-5 diagnostic threshold eating disorders and features amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples (First Australians) [2020]

• BMJ Open
  • Gaining consensus on clinical quality outcomes for eating disorders: Framework for the development of an Australian national minimum dataset [2023]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review [2023]
  • Prevention and early intervention in eating disorders: findings from a rapid review [2023]
  • Epidemiology of eating disorders: population, prevalence, disease burden and quality of life informing public policy in Australia-a rapid review [2023]
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated public health response on people with eating disorder symptomatology: an Australian study [2022]
  • Management of eating disorders for people with higher weight: clinical practice guideline [2022]
  • Prevalence, features and health impacts of eating disorders amongst First-Australian Yiramarang (adolescents) and in comparison with other Australian adolescents [2020]
  • Eating disorders amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians: a scoping review [2020]
  • Development of the “Recovery from Eating Disorders for Life” Food Guide (REAL Food Guide) - a food pyramid for adults with an eating disorder [2018]
  • Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of DSM-5 eating disorders in the Australian population [2015]

• National Eating Disorders Collaboration
  • Resources

• Nutrients
  • A Scoping Review of Eating Disorder Prevention and Body Image Programs Delivered in Australian Schools [2025]

• Public Health Research and Practice
  • Universal healthcare reform for community treatment of eating disorders in Australia: report of the first 2 years of operation [2022]

• Queensland Health
  • Assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders in Queensland

Australia, Europe, United States

• Nutrients
  • Disgust and Self-Disgust in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]

Australia, New Zealand

• Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders
  • Credentialing for eating disorder clinicians: a pathway for implementation of clinical practice standards [2020]
  • ANZAED practice and training standards for mental health professionals providing eating disorder treatment [2020]
  • ANZAED practice and training standards for dietitians providing eating disorder treatment [2020]
  • ANZAED eating disorder treatment principles and general clinical practice and training standards [2020]

Austria, Germany

• Frontiers in Psychology
  • Strengths and weaknesses of the German translation of the Inflexible Eating Questionnaire and of eating disorder assessment in general [2022]

Brazil

• Atención Primaria
  • Brazilian instrument for assessing of eating disorders in children and adolescents [2023]

Canada

• Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health
  • Early Intervention Programs for Adolescents and Young Adults With Eating Disorders: Main Report [2023]
  • Considerations of Access and Inclusion in Adolescent Eating Disorder Care: A Custom Rapid Report [2023]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • A guide to the community management of paediatric eating disorders [2024]

• CMAJ Open
  • Cost evaluation of out-of-country care for patients with eating disorders in Ontario: a population-based study [2016]

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • "Bulking and cutting" among a national sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults [2022]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The COVID-19 pandemic and eating disorders in children, adolescents, and emerging adults: virtual care recommendations from the Canadian consensus panel during COVID-19 and beyond [2021]
  • Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders [2020]

• Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Food for Thought: A Dissonance Between Healthcare Utilization Costs and Research Funding for Eating Disorders in Canada [2021]

• Nutrients
  • Self-Reported Lifetime History of Eating Disorders and Mortality in the General Population: A Canadian Population Survey with Record Linkage [2021]

Chile

• Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría
  • Eating disorders in adolescents: role of the pediatrician. Recommendations of the Adolescence Branch of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics [2020]

China

• Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Burden of Eating Disorders in China, 1990-2019: An Updated Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2021]

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Screen-detected disordered eating and related traits in a large population sample of females in mainland China: China Health and Nutrition Survey [2021]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Moderating Role of Family Resilience on the Relationship between COVID-19-Related Psychological Distress and Mental Health among Caregivers of Individuals with Eating Disorders in Post-Pandemic China [2023]

Denmark

• Psychiatry Research
  • Diagnosed eating disorders in Danish registers - incidence, prevalence, mortality, and polygenic risk [2024]

Europe

• European Academy of Paediatrics
  • Adolescents With Eating Disorders in Pediatric Practice - The European Academy of Paediatrics Recommendations [2022]

High-income countries

• BJPsych Open
  • Current eating disorder healthcare services – the perspectives and experiences of individuals with eating disorders, their families and health professionals: systematic review and thematic synthesis [2019]

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • A systematic review of the impact of carer interventions on outcomes for patients with eating disorders [2022]

• European Eating Disorders Review
  • The association between sexual orientation and eating disorders-related eating behaviours in adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]
  • Day Programs for children and adolescents with eating disorders: A systematic review [2023]

• Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Adolescent Eating Disorder Day Programme Treatment Models and Outcomes: A Systematic Scoping Review [2021]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Feeding and eating disorders in the DSM-5 era: a systematic review of prevalence rates in non-clinical male and female samples [2017]

International

• Acta Biomedica
  • Factors associated with eating disorders in adolescents: a systematic review [2022]

• BMC Medicine
  • The classification of feeding and eating disorders in the ICD-11: results of a field study comparing proposed ICD-11 guidelines with existing ICD-10 guidelines [2019]

• Current Opinion in Psychiatry
  • Incidence, prevalence and mortality of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa [2021]
  • Review of the burden of eating disorders: mortality, disability, costs, quality of life, and family burden [2020]
  • Evidence-based clinical guidelines for eating disorders: international comparison [2017]

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • COVID-19-related changes in eating disorder pathology, emotional and binge eating and need for care: a systematic review with frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses [2023]
  • The prevalence of feeding and eating disorders symptomology in medical students: an updated systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression [2022]
  • The prevalence and risk factors of screen-based disordered eating among university students: a global systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression [2022]
  • Disordered eating and the meat-avoidance spectrum: a systematic review and clinical implications [2022]
  • An update on the prevalence of eating disorders in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]
  • Affective cognition in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the performance on the "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test [2022]
  • A consensus document on definition and diagnostic criteria for orthorexia nervosa [2022]

• Eating Behaviors
  • Experiences of inpatient eating disorder admissions: A systematic review and meta-synthesis [2023]

• Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
  • Trends in the prevalence and disability-adjusted life years of eating disorders from 1990 to 2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 [2020]

• International Federation of Infantile and Juvenile Gynecology
  • FIGIJ and NASPAG Advocacy Statement: Recognize Eating Disorders Early and Intervene! [2025]

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorders: A systematic review [2023]
  • A mixed-studies systematic review of the experiences of body image, disordered eating, and eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic [2023]
  • Structural validity of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire: A systematic review [2022]
  • Identifying eating disorders in adolescents and adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review of screening questionnaires [2022]
  • A systematic scoping review of research on COVID-19 impacts on eating disorders: A critical appraisal of the evidence and recommendations for the field [2022]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • A systematic review of enteral feeding by nasogastric tube in young people with eating disorders [2021]

• Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • Eating Disorder Screening: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Test Characteristics of the SCOFF [2020]

• Lancet Psychiatry
  • The hidden burden of eating disorders: an extension of estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [2021]

• Nutrients
  • The Impact of the First and Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Eating Symptoms and Dysfunctional Eating Behaviours in the General Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2023]
  • Identifying Factors Which Influence Eating Disorder Risk during Behavioral Weight Management: A Consensus Study [2023]
  • Global Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Nutrition and Dietetic University Students: A Systematic Scoping Review [2023]
  • Stigmatization toward People with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder: A Scoping Review [2021]

• Trends in Molecular Medicine
  • Established and emerging treatments for eating disorders [2024]

• World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry
  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) guidelines update 2023 on the pharmacological treatment of eating disorders [2023]

Ireland

• Ireland's Health Services
  • Guideline for the Assessment and Management of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Eating Disorders in the Emergency Department [2023]

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • Review of Ireland’s First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on People Affected by Eating Disorders: ‘Behind Every Screen There Was a Family Supporting a Person with an Eating Disorder’ [2021]

Israel

• Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
  • Disordered eating among Arab and Jewish youth in Israel: the role of eating dinner with the family [2020]

• Nutrients
  • Differences in the Factor Structure of the Eating Attitude Test-26 (EAT-26) in Different Cultures in Israel: Jews, Muslims, and Christians [2021]

Italy

• Eating and Weight Disorders
  • What do Italian healthcare professionals think about orthorexia nervosa? Results from a multicenter survey [2022]
  • Risk of eating disorders in a representative sample of Italian adolescents: prevalence and association with self-reported interpersonal factors [2022]
  • Risk and resilience factors for specific and general psychopathology worsening in people with Eating Disorders during COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective Italian multicentre study [2021]
  • Eating disorders during COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of Italian healthcare providers [2021]

Jordan

• Sports
  • The Prevalence of "at Risk" Eating Disorders among Athletes in Jordan [2022]

Lebanon

• Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Prevalence, correlates, and gender disparities related to eating disordered behaviors among health science students and healthcare practitioners in Lebanon: Findings of a national cross sectional study [2022]

Low and middle income countries

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Assessing eating disorder symptoms in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review of psychometric studies of commonly used instruments [2022]

Malaysia

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Estimated prevalence of eating disorders in Malaysia based on a diagnostic screen [2022]

Middle East

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Prevalence of High-Risk Disordered Eating Amongst Adolescents and Young Adults in the Middle East: A Scoping Review [2022]

Netherlands

• European Journal of Pediatrics
  • Adverse effect of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic: increased incidence of pediatric crisis admissions due to eating disorders and adolescent intoxications [2023]

New Zealand

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image research in New Zealand: a scoping review [2023]

• Starship
  • Eating Disorders - management of

Norway

• JAMA Network Open
  • Eating Disorder Diagnoses in Children and Adolescents in Norway Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic [2022]

Poland, Spain

• Nutrients
  • Evaluation of Orthorexia Nervosa and Symptomatology Associated with Eating Disorders among European University Students: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study [2020]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Economic burden of eating disorders in South Korea [2021]

Saudi Arabia

• Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Presentation of Eating Disorders in Saudi Arabia [2020]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Correlates of eating disorder pathology in Saudi Arabia: BMI and body dissatisfaction [2022]

Singapore

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Estimated prevalence of eating disorders in Singapore [2021]

Spain

• Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Eating disorders risk assessment in men who practice team sports [2022]

• Nutrients
  • A Scoping Review of the Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Spain [2024]

Sweden

• BMC Public Health
  • Body image perception, smoking, alcohol use, indoor tanning, and disordered eating in young and middle-aged adults: findings from a large population-based Swedish study [2021]

• BMC Women's Health
  • An exploratory analysis of work engagement among women with and without disordered eating [2021]

• International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • Latent anxiety and depression dimensions differ amongst patients with eating disorders: A Swedish nationwide investigation [2023]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Analysis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Offspring of Mothers With Eating Disorders in Sweden [2022]

• Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Validity of eating disorder diagnoses in the Swedish national patient register [2022]

United Kingdom

• BJPsych Bulletin
  • Management of transitions to adult services for young people with eating disorders: survey of current practice in England [2023]

• BJPsych Open
  • Clinical management and mortality risk in those with eating disorders and self-harm: e-cohort study using the SAIL databank [2021]

• BMJ Open
  • Epidemiology of eating disorders in primary care in children and young people: a Clinical Practice Research Datalink study in England [2019]

• British Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Prevalence of probable eating disorders and associated risk factors: An analysis of the Northern Ireland Youth Wellbeing Survey using the SCOFF [2023]

• British Journal of General Practice
  • Assessment and management of medical emergencies in eating disorders: guidance for GPs [2023]

• British Psychological Society
  • Trainee clinical psychologists and qualified clinical psychologists working with people with eating disorders [2021]

• Department of Health and Social Care
  • PACAC inquiry into eating disorders: government response

• European Eating Disorders Review
  • Improving programme-led and focused interventions for eating disorders: An experts' consensus statement-A UK perspective [2023]

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on referral numbers, diagnostic mix, and symptom severity in Eating Disorder Early Intervention Services in England [2023]
  • How does the increase in eating difficulties according to the Development and Well-Being Assessment screening items relate to the population prevalence of eating disorders? An analysis of the 2017 Mental Health in Children and Young People survey [2022]
  • One size does not fit all. Genomics differentiates among anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder [2021]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Implementing service transformation for children and adolescents with eating disorders across England: the theory, politics, and pragmatics of large-scale service reform [2022]
  • Co-occurring psychotic and eating disorders in England: findings from the 2014 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey [2022]

• Lancet Child & Adolescent Health
  • Temporal trends in eating disorder and self-harm incidence rates among adolescents and young adults in the UK in the 2 years since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based study [2023]

• Lancet Psychiatry
  • Suicide in individuals with eating disorders who had sought mental health treatment in England: a national retrospective cohort study [2024]

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
  • 2024 exceptional surveillance of eating disorders: recognition and treatment (NICE guideline NG69) [2024]
  • Eating disorders: recognition and treatment [2020]
  • Eating disorders [2018]

• NHS England
  • Adult Eating Disorders: Community, Inpatient and Intensive Day Patient Care – Guidance for commissioners and providers [2019]

• Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Recognising and managing eating disorders in the emergency department [2023]

• Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Medical emergencies in eating disorders (MEED): Guidance on recognition and management [2023]
  • Managing transitions when the patient has an eating disorder [2017]

• Scottish Government
  • National Specification for the Care and Treatment of Eating Disorders in Scotland - Consultation Analysis Report [2024]
  • Care and treatment of eating disorders: national specification [2024]
  • National Review of Eating Disorder Services Implementation Group: final report [2023]
  • Care and treatment of eating disorders - national specification: consultation [2023]

• SIGN
  • Eating disorders

• UK Parliament
  • Eating disorder awareness [2025]

United States

• Academy for Eating Disorders
  • The AED Guide to Selecting Pharmacologic Treatments for Patients with Eating Disorders [2024]

• Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
  • Practical Considerations for Using the Eating Disorder Examination Interview with Adolescents [2023]

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • Screening for Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults: An Evidence Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force [2022]

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Identification and Management of Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents [2021]

• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • Gynecologic Care for Adolescents and Young Women With Eating Disorders [2018]

• American Family Physician
  • Initial Evaluation, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa [2015]

• American Psychiatric Association
  • The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders [2023]

• Annals of Epidemiology
  • Variability in eating disorder risk and diagnosis in transgender and gender diverse college students [2022]

• Behavioral Sciences
  • Eating Disorders and Suicidal Behaviors in Adolescents with Major Depression: Insights from the US Hospitals [2021]

• Current Opinion in Pediatrics
  • Update on the epidemiology and treatment of eating disorders among Hispanic/Latinx Americans in the United States [2022]

• Current Psychiatry Reports
  • Psychopharmacologic Management of Eating Disorders [2022]

• Eating Behaviors
  • The relation of food insecurity to eating disorder characteristics and treatment-seeking among adult respondents to the National Eating Disorders Association online screen [2023]
  • Eating disorder prevalence among multiracial US undergraduate and graduate students: Is multiracial risk different than the sum of each identity? [2021]
  • Characterizing eating disorder diagnosis and related outcomes by sexual orientation and gender identity in a national sample of college students [2021]

• Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Linear growth in young people with restrictive eating disorders: "Inching" toward consensus [2023]

• International Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Disparities in eating disorder symptoms and mental healthcare engagement prior to and following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a national study of US college students [2023]
  • Trauma exposure and eating disorders: Results from a United States nationally representative sample [2022]
  • Prevalence of diagnosed eating disorders in US transgender adults and youth in insurance claims [2022]
  • Eating disorders in the U.S. Medicare population [2022]
  • Changes in the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of eating disorder symptoms from 2013 to 2020 among a large national sample of U.S. young adults: A repeated cross-sectional study [2022]
  • A systematic review of sociodemographic reporting and representation in eating disorder psychotherapy treatment trials in the United States [2022]

• JAMA Network Open
  • Trends in US Patients Receiving Care for Eating Disorders and Other Common Behavioral Health Conditions Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic [2021]
  • Estimation of Eating Disorders Prevalence by Age and Associations With Mortality in a Simulated Nationally Representative US Cohort [2019]

• JAMA Pediatrics
  • Prevalence of Disordered Eating and Associations With Sex, Pubertal Maturation, and Weight in Children in the US [2022]

• Journal of Adolescent Health
  • The Prevalence of Preadolescent Eating Disorders in the United States [2022]

• Journal of Athletic Training
  • Prevalence and Association between Exercise Dependence and Eating Disorder Risk in Collegiate Student-Athletes [2023]

• Journal of Eating Disorders
  • The legacy of hope summit: a consensus-based initiative and report on eating disorders in the U.S. and recommendations for the path forward [2021]

• Medical Surveillance Monthly Report
  • Trends in the Incidence of Eating Disorders Among Active Component Service Members, 2017 to 2021 [2023]

• Psychiatry Research
  • Trends in eating disorder risk among U.S. college students, 2013-2021 [2022]

• Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • Food insecurity and its associations with bulimic-spectrum eating disorders, mood disorders, and anxiety disorders in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults [2022]

• Social Science & Medicine
  • Ethnic/racial and gender differences in disordered eating behavior prevalence trajectories among women and men from adolescence into adulthood [2022]

• Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
  • Medical Management of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults [2022]
  • Preventing Nutritional Disorders in Adolescents by Encouraging a Healthy Relationship With Food [2020]
  • Addressing Nutritional Disorders in Adolescents [2018]
  • Position Paper of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine: Medical Management of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults [2015]

• StatPearls
  • Eating Disorders

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Adults: Screening [2022]

Western countries

• Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
  • The prevalence of mental health outcomes among eating disorder patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis [2022]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Follow-Up of Eating Disorders from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Systematic Review [2022]

• PeerJ
  • Caregiver factors influencing family-based treatment for child and adolescent eating disorders: a systematic review and conceptual model [2025]

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