TY - JOUR
T1 - Putative risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury in eating disorders
AU - Vieira, Ana Isabel
AU - Machado, Bárbara C.
AU - Machado, Paulo P. P.
AU - Brandão, Isabel
AU - Roma-Torres, António
AU - Gonçalves, Sónia
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by a Foundation for Science and Technology doctoral grant to the first author (SFRH/BD/ 116974/2016).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/11
Y1 - 2017/11
N2 - Evidence suggests a common association between eating disorders (EDs) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). The present study aimed to investigate the potential risk factors for NSSI among ED patients. We assessed 245 ED patients with the Oxford Risk Factor Interview for ED. The results showed that 33% of ED patients reported NSSI in their lifetime. NSSI appeared to occur more frequently among binge eating/purging type ED patients than among patients with other ED and to be related to a more severe eating pathology. A younger age at the onset of eating problems, more negative self-evaluation, suicide attempts, substance abuse, parents' low weight, family tension at mealtime, parental alcohol problems, childhood abuse, peer aggression, and negative antecedent life events were more common among patients with co-occurring EDs and NSSI than among patients without NSSI. The results may inform the risk assessment and treatment of NSSI in EDs in the early detection period.
AB - Evidence suggests a common association between eating disorders (EDs) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). The present study aimed to investigate the potential risk factors for NSSI among ED patients. We assessed 245 ED patients with the Oxford Risk Factor Interview for ED. The results showed that 33% of ED patients reported NSSI in their lifetime. NSSI appeared to occur more frequently among binge eating/purging type ED patients than among patients with other ED and to be related to a more severe eating pathology. A younger age at the onset of eating problems, more negative self-evaluation, suicide attempts, substance abuse, parents' low weight, family tension at mealtime, parental alcohol problems, childhood abuse, peer aggression, and negative antecedent life events were more common among patients with co-occurring EDs and NSSI than among patients without NSSI. The results may inform the risk assessment and treatment of NSSI in EDs in the early detection period.
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Non-suicidal self-injury
KW - Risk factors
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U2 - 10.1002/erv.2545
DO - 10.1002/erv.2545
M3 - Article
C2 - 29057605
AN - SCOPUS:85032865867
SN - 1072-4133
VL - 25
SP - 544
EP - 550
JO - European Eating Disorders Review
JF - European Eating Disorders Review
IS - 6
ER -
