Consequences of child emotional abuse, emotional neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence for eating disorders: a systematic critical review

Kimber, Melissa; McTavish, Jill R.; Couturier, Jennifer; Boven, Alison; Gill, Sana; Dimitropoulos, Gina; MacMillan, Harriet L.

doi:10.1186/s40359-017-0202-3

Table 3 Sources focusing on childhood exposure to emotional neglect

From: Consequences of child emotional abuse, emotional neglect and exposure to intimate partner violence for eating disorders: a systematic critical review

Author, Country	Design (cross-sectional, longitudinal)	Sample Type (college, community, primary care, tertiary psychiatric care)	Sample Size (n)	Sample Characteristics • % Women • % Ethnic-minority • % Immigrant	Age Range (years)	Strength of Correlation for EN
Eating Disorders
Utzinger et al. [33], USA^*	cross-sectional	tertiary psychiatric care, college, community	n = 133	• 100% • 3% • Unclear	18 to 55	0.76–0.85^a**
Bardone-Cone et al. [49], USA^*	cross-sectional	Community, tertiary psychiatric care	n = 138	• 100% • 13% • Unclear	18 to 55	0.11–0.25^a**
Grilo and Masheb [37], USA*	cross-sectional	primary care, tertiary psychiatric care	n = 1, 241	• 97.9% • 19.8% • Unclear	18 to 65	0.26–0.50^c**
Schoemaker et al. [34], Netherlands	cross-sectional	community	n = 1926	• 100% • Unclear • Unclear	18 to 45	0.26–0.50^a**
Eating-Disordered Behavior
Michopoulos et al. [17], USA	cross-sectional	primary care	n = 1, 110	• 80.4% • 97.4% • Unclear	18 to 65	0.11–0.25^c**
Moulton et al. [14] Scotland	cross-sectional	college	n = 142	• 100% • Unclear • Unclear	18 to 46	0.26–0.50^a**
Brooke and Mussap [41],	cross-sectional	college	n = 299	• 52% • Unclear • Unclear	18 to 40	0.01–0.10^b 0.11–0.25^c 0.26–0.50^a**
Becker and Grilo [36], USA^*	cross-sectional	tertiary psychiatric care	n = 137	• 100% • 15% • Unclear	20 to 59	0.01–0.10^ad
Fosse and Holen [45], Norway	cross-sectional	tertiary psychiatric care	n = 107	• 100% • Unclear • Unclear	18 to 55	0.11–0.25^ad
Eating Disorders and Eating-Disordered Behavior
Grilo and Masheb [38], USA*	cross-sectional	primary care, tertiary psychiatric care	n = 1, 270	• 97.3% • 19.8% • Unclear	18 to 65	0.01–0.10^cd 0.11–0.25^cd

* Country of data collection not articulated. Assumption of country location was made given language used to describe participants (e.g. African American) or based upon identification of the location of the study’s Institutional Review Board
** Authors reported at least one bivariate correlation estimate to be significant at p < .05
^a Estimate falls within this range among women
^b Estimate falls within this range among men
^c Estimate falls within this range among men and women
^d Estimate reported was non-significant

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