Eating Disorders in Veterans: Prevalence, Comorbidity, Risk, and Health Care Use
Abstract
This application focuses on eating disorders (EDs) and addresses several FY17 PRMRP Areas for Encouragement, including prevalence of diagnosable EDs and other clinically significant disordered eating, associations between ED symptoms and military-unique behaviors and conditions, and treatment patterns of individuals with EDs. We will establish a cohort of post-9/11 Veterans who were separated from service within the past year in order to: (1a) Examine the prevalence of full/subthreshold EDs among male and female Veterans. (1b) Examine the proportion of full/subthreshold EDs among vulnerable subgroups of Veterans. (1c)Examine temporal associations among EDs and comorbid disorders, including PTSD, depression, anxiety, and alcohol and substance use disorders. (2a) Document treatment patterns and healthcare preferences among male and female Veterans with probable full/subthreshold ED diagnoses. (2b) Compare treatment patterns for Veterans with probable full/subthreshold ED diagnoses to Veterans without ED diagnoses. (2c) Identify barriers to care for Veterans seeking mental health treatment in general and for EDs specifically. (3) Identify the impact of general and military/Veteran-specific risk/maintenance factors for ED symptoms and investigate gender differences. (4) Validate and compare two existing, scalable, screening measures of EDs in a Veteran sample.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Accession Number
- AD1194074
Entities
People
- Karen S Mitchell
Organizations
- Boston VA Research Institute