title: Self-weighing behavior in individuals with eating disorders.
abstract: To describe the frequency of self-weighing and reactions to prescribed weekly weighing among individuals with eating disorder (ED) diagnoses, and to compare individuals weighing more or less frequently on mass index (BMI) and the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) subscales.
  
  
  
  Baseline EDE and demographics from five studies (N = 758).
  
  
  
  Self-weighing was most frequent among individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN), followed by those with bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED). On average, participants reacted moderately negative to prescribed weekly weighing. No relationship between weighing frequency and BMI was evident in any sample. There was indication of greater pathology (i.e., restraint, shape concern, weight concern, global) in AN with more frequent weighing. In BN, mixed evidence emerged to support a relationship between more frequent weighing and higher shape concern, weight concern, and global score. In BED, higher restraint was found in those who weighed versus those who did not.
  
  
  
  Weighing frequency in each eating disorder (ED) sample was to some extent associated with greater ED severity, but not BMI. Future research should examine relationships between self-weighing, reactions to changing weighing frequency, and ED symptomatology in both ED and non-ED groups to understand the impact of self-weighing in heterogeneous populations. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:817-821).
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.|Department of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.|Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota.
authors.forename: Carly R
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6404-0886
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Pacanowski
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Emily M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Pisetsky
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Kelly C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota.|University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, North Dakota.
authors.forename: Ross D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Crosby
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.|The Emily Program, St. Paul, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Scott J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Crow
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Linde
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota.|University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, North Dakota.
authors.forename: Scott G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Engel
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
authors.forename: Marjorie H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Klein
authors.affiliation: VA South Central Mental Illness Research, Education & Clinical Center; VA HSR&D Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness & Safety (IQuEST), Dept. of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States.
authors.forename: Tracey L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of California, San Francisco, California.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Grange
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, North Dakota.|University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Fargo, North Dakota.
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Wonderlich
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.|The Emily Program, St. Paul, Minnesota.
authors.forename: Carol B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders; D001828:Body Image; D001835:Body Weight; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012648:Self Care
keywords: anorexia nervosa; binge eating disorder; bulimia nervosa; self-weighing; weighing