PMID- 37273340
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230606
IS  - 2168-8184 (Print)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Electronic)
IS  - 2168-8184 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 5
DP  - 2023 May
TI  - Is Orthorexia Nervosa a Non-specific Eating Disorder or a Disease in the Spectrum 
      of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
PG  - e38451
LID - 10.7759/cureus.38451 [doi]
LID - e38451
AB  - BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in awareness in 
      society that healthy nutrition has positive effects on health. However, obsession 
      with these behaviors towards healthy foods causes negative effects on health and 
      quality of life. AIM: The aim of this study was to elucidate the relationship 
      between the incidence of orthorexia nervosa (ON) in medical school students and 
      the level of conscious awareness, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating attitudes 
      and behaviors, health anxiety, and body image to clarify the unclear issues in 
      the literature, such as whether orthorexia nervosa is among the psychological 
      disorders, "where" it will take place, and which diagnoses it can be associated 
      with. METHODS: Students between the 1(st) and 6(th) grades of medical school were 
      invited to participate in this research. The Sociodemographic Data Form, Maudsley 
      Obsessive-Compulsive Question Index (MOCI), Eating Attitude Test Short Form (EAT 
      SF-26), Health Anxiety Inventory-Weekly Short Form (HAI-SF), ORTO-11 scale, Body 
      Perception Scale, and Conscious Awareness Scale have been applied to the 
      students. RESULTS: In univariate analysis, the eating disorder scale, body image 
      scale, and awareness scale total scores all had an impact on orthorexia. Each 
      increase in the eating disorder scale score increased the diagnosis of orthorexia 
      1.07 times, while each increase in the body image scale score increased the 
      diagnosis of orthorexia 1.09 times. Additionally, each increase in the conscious 
      awareness scale score decreased the diagnosis of orthorexia by 0.92 times. When 
      all variables were re-evaluated in the multivariate analysis, it was seen that 
      the total scores of the body image scale and conscious awareness scale affected 
      the diagnosis of orthorexia. There was a weak inverse relationship between the 
      orthorexia scale score and only the health anxiety inventory total score 
      (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Regarding the outcomes of this research, one can say that 
      orthorexia affected the eating disorder scale, body image scale, and awareness 
      scale total scores. While the increase in the eating disorder and body image 
      scale scores increased orthorexia, the increase in the conscious awareness scale 
      score had a decreasing effect.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023, Dolapoglu et al.
FAU - Dolapoglu, Nazan
AU  - Dolapoglu N
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Balikesir University Faculty of Medicine, Balikesir, 
      TUR.
FAU - Ozcan, Duygu
AU  - Ozcan D
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Balikesir University Faculty of Medicine, Balikesir, 
      TUR.
FAU - Tulaci, Riza Gokcer
AU  - Tulaci RG
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Balikesir University Faculty of Medicine, Balikesir, 
      TUR.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230502
PL  - United States
TA  - Cureus
JT  - Cureus
JID - 101596737
PMC - PMC10234576
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - body perception scale
OT  - conscious awareness scale
OT  - eating disorders
OT  - health anxiety
OT  - orthorexia nervosa
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2023/06/05 13:04
MHDA- 2023/06/05 13:05
PMCR- 2023/05/02
CRDT- 2023/06/05 11:45
PHST- 2023/04/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/06/05 13:05 [medline]
PHST- 2023/06/05 13:04 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/06/05 11:45 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/05/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.7759/cureus.38451 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Cureus. 2023 May 2;15(5):e38451. doi: 10.7759/cureus.38451. eCollection 2023 May.