Design and methods of the Longitudinal Eating Disorders Assessment Project research consortium for veterans

IF 2.4 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research Pub Date : 2022-10-17 DOI:10.1002/mpr.1941

Kelsie T. Forbush, Trevor J. Swanson, Melinda Gaddy, Mary Oehlert, Alesha Doan, Robert W. Morgan, Colin O’Brien, Yiyang Chen, Kylie Christian, Q. Chelsea Song, David Watson, Joanna Wiese

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Abstract

Introduction

Military service members must maintain a certain body mass index and body fat percentage. Due to weight-loss pressures, some service members may resort to unhealthy behaviors that place them at risk for the development of an eating disorder (ED).

Objectives

To understand the scope and impact of EDs in military service members and veterans, we formed the Longitudinal Eating Disorders Assessment Project (LEAP) Consortium. LEAP aims to develop novel screening, assessment, classification, and treatment tools for veterans and military members with a focus on EDs and internalizing psychopathology.

Methods

We recruited two independent nationally representative samples of post-9/11 veterans who were separated from service within the past year. Study 1 was a four-wave longitudinal survey and Study 2 was a mixed-methods study that included surveys, structured-clinical interviews, and qualitative interviews.

Results

Recruitment samples were representative of the full population of recently separated veterans. Sample weights were created to adjust for sources of non-response bias to the baseline survey. Attrition was low relative to past studies of this population, with only (younger) age predicting attrition at 1-week follow-up.

Conclusions

We expect that the LEAP Consortium data will contribute to improved information about EDs in veterans, a serious and understudied problem.

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退伍军人饮食失调纵向评估项目研究联盟的设计与方法

军人必须保持一定的身体质量指数和体脂率。由于减肥的压力，一些服役人员可能会采取不健康的行为，使他们有可能患上饮食失调症(ED)。目的为了了解军人和退伍军人饮食失调的范围和影响，我们成立了纵向饮食失调评估项目(LEAP)联盟。LEAP旨在为退伍军人和军人开发新的筛查、评估、分类和治疗工具，重点关注急症和内化精神病理学。方法我们招募了两个独立的具有全国代表性的样本，这些样本是在过去一年内从9/11后退伍军人中分离出来的。研究1是一项四波纵向调查，研究2是一项混合方法研究，包括调查、结构化临床访谈和定性访谈。结果招募样本具有代表性的是新近退伍军人的全部人口。创建样本权重是为了调整基线调查无反应偏差的来源。与过去对该人群的研究相比，减员率较低，只有(更年轻的)年龄预测了1周随访时的减员率。我们期望LEAP联盟的数据将有助于改善退伍军人急诊科的信息，这是一个严重而尚未得到充分研究的问题。

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International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 医学-精神病学

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5.20

自引率

6.50%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

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