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COVID Isolation Eating Scale ( CIES ): Analysis of the impact of confinement in eating disorders and obesity—A collaborative international study

2020; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/erv.2784

1099-0968

Fernando Fernández‐Aranda, Lucero Munguía, Gemma Mestre‐Bach, Trevor Steward, Mikel Etxandi, Isabel Baenas, Roser Granero, Isabel Sánchez, Emilio Ortega, Alba Andreu, Violeta L. Moizé, José Manuel Fernández‐Real, Francisco J. Tinahones, Carlos Diéguez, Gema Frühbeck, Daniel Le Grange, Kate Tchanturia, Andreas Karwautz, Michael D. Zeiler, Angela Favaro, Laurence Claes, Koen Luyckx, Ia Shekriladze, Eduardo Serrano‐Troncoso, Teresa Rangil, Maria Eulalia Loran Meler, Jose Soriano‐Pacheco, Mar Carceller‐Sindreu, Sara Bujalance‐Arguijo, Meritxell Lozano, Raquel Linares, Carlota Gudiol, Jordi Carratalà, Jéssica Sánchez‐González, Paulo P. P. Machado, Anders Håkansson, Ferenc Túry, Bea Pászthy, Dan J. Stein, Hana Papežová, Brigita Bax, Mikhail F. Borisenkov, Sergey V. Popov, Youl‐Ri Kim, Michiko Nakazato, Nathalie Godart, Robert van Voren, Tetiana Ilnytska, Jue Chen, Katie Rowlands, Janet Treasure, Susana Jiménez‐Múrcia,

Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Abstract Confinement during the COVID‐19 pandemic is expected to have a serious and complex impact on the mental health of patients with an eating disorder (ED) and of patients with obesity. The present manuscript has the following aims: (1) to analyse the psychometric properties of the COVID Isolation Eating Scale (CIES), (2) to explore changes that occurred due to confinement in eating symptomatology; and (3) to explore the general acceptation of the use of telemedicine during confinement. The sample comprised 121 participants (87 ED patients and 34 patients with obesity) recruited from six different centres. Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) tested the rational‐theoretical structure of the CIES. Adequate goodness‐of‐fit was obtained for the confirmatory factor analysis, and Cronbach alpha values ranged from good to excellent. Regarding the effects of confinement, positive and negative impacts of the confinement depends of the eating disorder subtype. Patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and with obesity endorsed a positive response to treatment during confinement, no significant changes were found in bulimia nervosa (BN) patients, whereas Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED) patients endorsed an increase in eating symptomatology and in psychopathology. Furthermore, AN patients expressed the greatest dissatisfaction and accommodation difficulty with remote therapy when compared with the previously provided face‐to‐face therapy. The present study provides empirical evidence on the psychometric robustness of the CIES tool and shows that a negative confinement impact was associated with ED subtype, whereas OSFED patients showed the highest impairment in eating symptomatology and in psychopathology.