Description and Evaluation of Eating Disorders in Elite Athletes (TCA SHN) (TCA SHN)

Description and Evaluation of Eating Disorders in Elite Athletes

Athletes in particular elite athletes have obsessional food and body concerns, in bond with a worship of the performance more and more invading, which lead to clinical and subclinical eating disorders. These eating disorders differ according to the disciplines and are difficult to diagnose in athletes because there are insufficiently described.

Our aim at estimating the frequency of eating disorders in athletes and describing eating disorders by means of somatic, dietetic and psychological evaluations.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa; Eating Disorders; Boulimia Nervosa; Binge Eating Disorders

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 386

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • CHU Nantes, France, 44000
    • Prétagut

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT, CHILD)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Athletes registered on the high level sportsmen list or in access to high level sport

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• to have at least 12 years
• to be registered on the high level sportsmen list or to be in access to high level sport
• to have obtained the non opposition of the athlete if he is major (if not the legal person in charge of the athlete have to give is non opposition).
• to be affiliated to social security

Exclusion Criteria:

• presenting obvious cognitive disturbance
• not able to understand or/ and to read French language
• pregnant women
• subject under tutelage

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Presence of eating disorder	A subject presents an eating disorder if at least one of the tree clinical investigators (somatician, dietician, psychologist) mark it. Eating disorders will be described by: Dietetic consultation, Somatic examination, Psychological evaluation	1 day

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Presence of eating disorder according to the psychologist, dietician and the somatician	Presence of eating disorder according to the psychologist, dietician and the somatician	1 day
Sociodemographic variables	age, sex, sporting discipline exercised	1 day
Doping conduits variables	age of onset of consumption (PAP support products performance) legal and illegal, current frequency of consumption of PAP licit and illicit consumption as problematic or not the patient.	1 day
Investment in practice sporting variables	Desired level of sports, number of hours per week over the last 4 weeks, up / concern of the sport.	1 day
Addictives and psychiatric comorbidity	anxiety disorders, depression and sleep disorders Scale : GEEMS, EDI, EDS-R	1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Stephane Pretagut, CHU de Nantes; Principal Investigator: Serge Lise, University Hospital, Bordeaux; Principal Investigator: Michel GUINOT, University Hospital, Grenoble

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: June 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): January 1, 2013
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): January 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 17, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 28, 2012
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): March 5, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): August 8, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 5, 2016
• Last Verified: August 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: reverse anorexia,; anorexia athletics
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Pathologic Processes; Signs and Symptoms, Digestive; Hyperphagia; Anorexia; Anorexia Nervosa; Disease; Bulimia; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Binge-Eating Disorder; Bulimia Nervosa
• Other Study ID Numbers: BRD/09/03-V