Anna Brytek-Matera1, Maria Luisa Fonte2, Eleonora Poggiogalle3, Lorenzo Maria Donini3, Hellas Cena2. 1. Katowice Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, 40-326, Katowice, Poland. abrytek-matera@swps.edu.pl. 2. Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. 3. Experimental Medicine Department, Food Science and Human Nutrition Research Unit, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between ORTO-15 score and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, disordered eating patterns and body uneasiness among female and male university students and to examine the predictive model of ORTO-15 in both groups. METHODS: One hundred and twenty students participated in the present study (mean age 22.74 years, SD 7.31). The ORTO-15 test, the Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Questionnaire, the Eating Attitudes Test-26 and the Body Uneasiness Test were used for the present study. RESULTS: Our results revealed no gender differences in ORTO-15 score. Our results show, rather unexpectedly, that in female students lower scores, corresponding to greater severity, were related to less pathological body image discomfort and obsessive-compulsive signs, while in male students, lower ORTO-15 scores were related to less pathological eating patterns, as behaviors and symptoms. CONCLUSION: Further studies regarding the relationship between ON and anorexia nervosa, as well as obsessive-compulsive symptoms, are needed to better understand the causality. Level of Evidence Level V, descriptive study.
INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between ORTO-15 score and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, disordered eating patterns and body uneasiness among female and male university students and to examine the predictive model of ORTO-15 in both groups. METHODS: One hundred and twenty students participated in the present study (mean age 22.74 years, SD 7.31). The ORTO-15 test, the Maudsley Obsessive-Compulsive Questionnaire, the Eating Attitudes Test-26 and the Body Uneasiness Test were used for the present study. RESULTS: Our results revealed no gender differences in ORTO-15 score. Our results show, rather unexpectedly, that in female students lower scores, corresponding to greater severity, were related to less pathological body image discomfort and obsessive-compulsive signs, while in male students, lower ORTO-15 scores were related to less pathological eating patterns, as behaviors and symptoms. CONCLUSION: Further studies regarding the relationship between ON and anorexia nervosa, as well as obsessive-compulsive symptoms, are needed to better understand the causality. Level of Evidence Level V, descriptive study.
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Disordered eating patterns; Obsessive-compulsive symptoms; Orthorexia nervosa; University population
Authors: G Vaccari; A Cutino; F Luisi; N Giambalvo; S Navab Daneshmand; M Pinelli; G Maina; G M Galeazzi; S Kaleci; U Albert; A R Atti; S Ferrari Journal: Eat Weight Disord Date: 2021-02-05 Impact factor: 4.652