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Female athlete experiences of seeking and receiving treatment for an eating disorder

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posted on 2016-12-09, 13:34 authored by Carolyn PlateauCarolyn Plateau, Jon Arcelus, Newman Leung, Caroline Meyer
Clinical eating disorders are common among athletes; however research has yet to explore the process of seeking and receiving treatment for an eating disorder in this population. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirteen female athletes currently receiving treatment for an eating disorder. Three themes emerged: Challenges to treatment seeking; Feeling out of place and Coping with exercise transitions. Athletes reported low levels of eating disorder literacy and lacked motivation to engage with therapy due to a lack of perceived relevance. Athletes found it challenging to relinquish exercise behaviours in treatment and expressed concerns around managing a return to sport. It may be necessary to provide additional support to athletes when embarking on and leaving treatment programmes, particularly with regards to managing expectations about exercise.

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School

  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention

Volume

TBC

Issue

TBC

Pages

TBC - TBC

Citation

PLEATEAU, C.R., 2017. Female athlete experiences of seeking and receiving treatment for an eating disorder. Eating Disorders, 25 (3), pp. 273-277.

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© Taylor and Francis

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-11-17

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Eating Disorders on 4 Jan 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10640266.2016.1269551.

ISSN

1064-0266

eISSN

1532-530X

Language

  • en

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