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Design and methods of the Longitudinal Eating Disorders Assessment Project research consortium for veterans
Forbush, Kelsie T. Swanson, Trevor J. Gaddy, Melinda Oehlert, Mary Doan, Alesha E. Morgan, Robert W. O’Brien, Colin Chen, Yiyang Christian, Kylie Song, Q. Chelsea
Forbush, Kelsie T.
Swanson, Trevor J.
Gaddy, Melinda
Oehlert, Mary
Doan, Alesha E.
Morgan, Robert W.
O’Brien, Colin
Chen, Yiyang
Christian, Kylie
Song, Q. Chelsea
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Abstract
Introduction
Military service members must maintain a certain body mass index and body fat percentage. Due to weight-loss pressures, some service members may resort to unhealthy behaviors that place them at risk for the development of an eating disorder (ED).
Objectives
To understand the scope and impact of EDs in military service members and veterans, we formed the Longitudinal Eating Disorders Assessment Project (LEAP) Consortium. LEAP aims to develop novel screening, assessment, classification, and treatment tools for veterans and military members with a focus on EDs and internalizing psychopathology.
Methods
We recruited two independent nationally representative samples of post-9/11 veterans who were separated from service within the past year. Study 1 was a four-wave longitudinal survey and Study 2 was a mixed-methods study that included surveys, structured-clinical interviews, and qualitative interviews.
Results
Recruitment samples were representative of the full population of recently separated veterans. Sample weights were created to adjust for sources of non-response bias to the baseline survey. Attrition was low relative to past studies of this population, with only (younger) age predicting attrition at 1-week follow-up.
Conclusions
We expect that the LEAP Consortium data will contribute to improved information about EDs in veterans, a serious and understudied problem.
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2022-10-17
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Wiley Open Access
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Assessment, Department of defense, Disordered eating, Eating disorders, Longitudinal, Mental health, Nationally representative, Psychiatric disorders, VADIR, Veterans
Citation
Forbush, K. T., Swanson, T. J., Gaddy, M., Oehlert, M., Doan, A., Morgan, R. W., O’Brien, C., Chen, Y., Christian, K., Song, Q. C., Watson, D., & Wiese, J. (2023). Design and methods of the Longitudinal Eating Disorders Assessment Project research consortium for veterans. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 32( 2), e1941. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1941