Disordered eating behaviours and eating disorders (EDs) are prevalent among athletes both
at clinical and subclinical levels. This review briefly summarizes and updates the main …

Eating disorders (EDs) are prevalent in sports. Although a distinction has been made to date
between high-and low-risk sports for EDs, recent studies have indicated that footballers and …

From the emergence of isolated studies in the early 1980s to the concentrated and
burgeoning research base of the present day, scholars within sport psychology have been …

Eating disorders can lead to death. The prevalence of subclinical and eating disorders is
high among female athletes, and the prevalence of eating disorders is higher among female …

issue of risk factors and introduce an etiological model to explain the development of
disordered eating among athletes and to stimulate research in this area. Fourth, we address …

Eating disorders are psychiatric and behavioral health pathologies of high complexity and
different etiology, which can affect age groups, sexes, and ethnicities indistinctly. This study …

We determined the prevalence of eating disorder (ED) symptoms among elite Spanish
athletes from a broad range of sports and levels of competition and examined the …

The prevalence of disordered eating and eating disorders vary from 0–19% in male athletes
and 6–45% in female athletes. The objective of this paper is to present an overview of eating …

Objective The theoretical model by Petrie and Greenleaf (2007, 2012) is an admirable
attempt to collate the causal factors of disordered eating in athletes. The aims of this …

Eating disorders appear with relative frequency in sports, such as gymnastics, figure skating
or resistance sports, in which weight control is important. Their incidence is greater in …