Definitions
Profound refusal to maintain a normal body weight at 85% of expected weight
Anorexia
What are 3 symptoms of anorexia?
reducing food consumption, long-term fasting, avoiding social eating
What ADLs are impacted by EDs? How?
Eating and swallowing, dressing, etc.
How do EDs impact an person's energy?
Lack of nutrition can cause a lack of motivation and appetite, difficulty with impulse control, and cravings.
How can EDs impact a person's ability to regulate?
Individuals with an ED may have trouble regulating behaviors, such as binge eating or purging.
Perverted appetite for nonnutritive, nonfood substances
Pica
What are 3 symptoms of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder?
ritualized behaviors, self-mutilation, compulsive thoughts about food
What IADLs are impacted by EDs? How?
Meal preparation and cleanup, care of others, shopping, etc.
How are higher-level cognitive functions impacted by EDs?
Lack of nutrition and poor mental health can impact judgement, cognitive flexibility, and concept formation.
How can EDs impact an individual's ability to initiate social interactions?
EDs can create a lack of confidence to start interactions or cause them to avoid social eating environments.
Both recurrent episodes of excessive eating within a discrete period of time and a perceived sense of lack of control over the eating
Binge Eating Disorder
What are 3 symptoms of rumination?
Feelings of needing to belch, pressure, nausea, pain, or discomfort
What health management occupations are impacted by EDs? How?
Emotional health promotion, symptom management, nutrition management, etc.
How can EDs impact temperament and personality?
Lack of nutrition and poor mental health can impact emotional stability, openness, confidence, and impulse control.
How can EDs impact a person's ability to endure tasks?
Lack of nutrition can impact an individual's ability to concentrate and maintain attention, as well as create difficulty with physical endurance.
Episodic and recurring binge eating and purging of food to avoid weight gain
Bulimia
What are 3 symptoms of Pica?
tooth decay, weakness and fatigue, social withdrawal
What work/education occupations are impacted by EDs? How?
Formal education participation, employment interests and pursuits, job performance, etc.
How can taste functions be impacted by EDs?
Eating nonfood substances or a non-nutritious diet can cause troubles with associations of taste qualities (sweetness, saltiness, etc.)
How can EDs impact an individual's ability to choose?
It may impact their ability to choose appropriate and nutritious food and the appropriate amounts
Non purposeful regurgitation of recently ingested food from the stomach to the mouth, where it is rechewed, reswallowed, or expelled
Rumination
What are 3 symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder?
comparing self with others, eating in isolation, poor insight and judgement
What leisure occupations are impacted by EDs? How?
Leisure exploration, leisure participation
How can EDs impact one's experience of self and time?
Can create negative perceptions of one's body and awareness of what they truly look like
How can EDs impact the expression of emotions?
May have emotional outbursts or difficulty expressing true emotions