BACKGROUND: Since little is known about the long-term course and outcome of bulimia nervosa, the authors designed a 12-year prospective longitudinal study with five cross-sectional assessments based o

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• The dismantling of a myth: A review of eating disorders and socioeconomic status (1996) · doi

  RESULTS: It was found that existing research fails to support this stereotype for eating disorders as a whole, that the relationship between anorexia nervosa and high socioeconomic status remains to be proved, and that there is increasing evidence to suggest that the opposite relationship may apply to bulimia nervosa.

  Keywords: relationship nervosa found existing fails support stereotype eating disorders whole anorexia high socioeconomic status remains
• Twelve-year course and outcome of bulimia nervosa (2004) · doi

  BACKGROUND: Since little is known about the long-term course and outcome of bulimia nervosa, the authors designed a 12-year prospective longitudinal study with five cross-sectional assessments based on a large sample of consecutively treated females with bulimia nervosa (purging type) (BN-P).

  Keywords: bulimia nervosa background little known long term course outcome authors designed year prospective longitudinal five
• Compassion-Focused Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa and Bulimic Presentations: A Preliminary Case Series (2017) · doi

  Objectives: Validated treatments for adults with bulimia nervosa (BN) and related presentations are scarce, and the current most evidenced treatment — cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders — is resource intensive and has suboptimal remission rates; there is, therefore, a need to evaluate the effectiveness of other approaches for treating such conditions in routine NHS services.

  Keywords: objectives validated treatments adults bulimia nervosa related presentations scarce current evidenced treatment cognitive behaviour therapy