Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Nov;51(11):1285-1289. doi: 10.1002/eat.22965. Epub 2018 Nov 28.
Previous research suggests that men with eating disorders are less likely to seek treatment than are women. Given stereotypes linked to eating disorders, men may be less likely to recognize when they have an eating disorder, which could act as a barrier to treatment-seeking.
The current study examined differences in self-recognition and treatment-seeking behavior by gender, controlling for other covariates, in participants with probable DSM-5 eating disorders drawn from a larger community-based sample.
Being female and self-recognition were both associated with increased likelihood of treatment-seeking while accounting for other potential covariates, including race/ethnicity, age, BMI, and comorbid disorders.
Results indicate that self-recognition is a barrier to seeking treatment for both genders and does not account for help-seeking differences between women and men. Findings have implications for interventions to address barriers to treatment-seeking for eating disorders.
既往研究提示，患有进食障碍的男性比女性更不愿意寻求治疗。鉴于与进食障碍相关的刻板印象，男性可能不太容易意识到自己患有进食障碍，这可能成为寻求治疗的障碍。
本研究通过对来自更大的社区样本的患有可能的 DSM-5 进食障碍的参与者进行性别分析，检验了自我识别和治疗寻求行为的差异，同时控制了其他协变量。
在考虑了种族/民族、年龄、BMI 和共病障碍等其他潜在协变量后，女性和自我识别都与治疗寻求的可能性增加相关。
结果表明，自我识别是寻求治疗的障碍，且对两性之间寻求帮助的差异没有影响。这些发现对解决进食障碍治疗寻求障碍的干预措施具有启示意义。
