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Disordered eating in sport : - Coggle Diagram
Disordered eating in sport :
Disorders
Types
Bulimia - binge eating and compensatory weight control behaviours
FED-NEC - disorders which aren't classified elsewhere
Anorexia - fear of gaining weight
Disordered eating spectrum
Consequences -
highest mortality
rate of all disorders
EDs in sport
Sports can cause EDs
Weight class sports - over/under eating
Water sports - body on show can cause judgement
Research into EDs in sport
Mainly prevalence studies
- we are focussing on prevalence rather than preventing it
Some correlation and risk-factors studies
Prevalence
Some sports have more EDs, such as
female lean sport
athletes are twice as likely to have disordered eating
Less prevalent - those who play sport but
not competitively
at a high level have less disordered eating
Causes
Multi-causal model - genetic, social and psychological
Individual risk-factors - personality traits such as self-esteem
Socio-cultural influences - wider society outside of sport, peers, coaches and sports ethic
Prevalence/interventions
Prevention methods - Sundgot-Borgen & Torsteit, (2010)
Interventions - educate to
increase mental health literacy
(link to the previous lecture to show how this can increase mental health treatment-seeking)