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Article

Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period

by
Matteo Martini
,
Paola Longo
,
Nadia Delsedime
,
Giovanni Abbate-Daga
* and
Matteo Panero
Eating Disorders Center, Department of Neuroscience “Rita Levi Montalcini”, University of Turin, Via Cherasco 11, 10126 Turin, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12(2), 573; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020573
Submission received: 8 December 2022 / Revised: 3 January 2023 / Accepted: 9 January 2023 / Published: 10 January 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Mental Health)
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Abstract

The study of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals who attended mental health services is needed to identify the specific vulnerabilities associated to this challenging period. Despite several analyses reporting the worsening of eating disorders symptomatology after the beginning of the pandemic, characterizations of adult inpatients with eating disorders are still lacking. We conducted a retrospective analysis to assess whether adult individuals who underwent hospitalization in a specialized eating disorders unit in the two years after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic differed in clinical presentation, psychopathological measures, and treatment outcomes from inpatients hospitalized in the two years before. In the comparison between the two groups, the individuals who began treatment after the start of the pandemic presented with more physical hyperactivity and more severe psychopathological scores in most of the areas investigated, with differences in eating symptoms still evident at discharge. Notably, body-related symptoms (i.e., body shape concerns, body checking, body avoidance) were associated with the pandemic, and also for inpatients with extreme anorexia nervosa. This retrospective analysis does not allow us to separate the impact of COVID-19 from other potentially relevant co-occurring factors; however, these findings help in understanding how the pandemic could have affected individuals that needed specialized intensive treatment.
Keywords: anorexia nervosa; hospitalization; COVID-19 pandemic; eating disorders; body-related symptoms; lockdown; mental health anorexia nervosa; hospitalization; COVID-19 pandemic; eating disorders; body-related symptoms; lockdown; mental health

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Martini, M.; Longo, P.; Delsedime, N.; Abbate-Daga, G.; Panero, M. Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12, 573. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020573

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Martini M, Longo P, Delsedime N, Abbate-Daga G, Panero M. Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2023; 12(2):573. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020573

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Martini, Matteo, Paola Longo, Nadia Delsedime, Giovanni Abbate-Daga, and Matteo Panero. 2023. "Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period" Journal of Clinical Medicine 12, no. 2: 573. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020573

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Martini, M., Longo, P., Delsedime, N., Abbate-Daga, G., & Panero, M. (2023). Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(2), 573. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12020573

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