Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Comorbidity with Anxiety: Non-Experimental Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate eating disorders and anxiety symptoms in a sample of 46 participants from the active adult population without a psychiatric diagnosis.

Eating Disorder Inventory–3 (EDI-3, Garner, 2004) and Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ, Zimmerman, 2002) were selfadministered in a single step. The obtained results showed statistically significant positive correlations between the composite scale - eating disorder risk and bulimia (r = 0.326, p < 0.05), panic disorder (r = 0.300, p < 0.05) and body mass index (r = 0.511, p < 0.01). Statistically significant results were obtained between the scale body dissatisfaction and body mass index (r = 0.531, p < 0.01). The obtained data may represent starting points for more thorough studies regarding the potential methods of increasing the quality of life within the patients with anxiety and eating disorders that could change their cognitive and behavioral strategies about food.