Adolescents With Eating Disorders in Pediatric Practice - The European Academy of Paediatrics Recommendations

Agnieszka Rynkiewicz; Łukasz Dembiński; Berthold Koletzko; Pierre-André Michaud; Adamos Hadjipanayis; Zachi Grossman; Kathryn Korslund; Bryan H King; Janet Treasure; Jarosław Peregud-Pogorzelski; Stefano Del Torso; Arunas Valiulis; Artur Mazur

doi:10.3389/fped.2022.806399

Adolescents With Eating Disorders in Pediatric Practice - The European Academy of Paediatrics Recommendations

Front Pediatr. 2022 Apr 26:10:806399. doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.806399. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Agnieszka Rynkiewicz^{1

2}, Łukasz Dembiński^{3

4}, Berthold Koletzko^{3

5}, Pierre-André Michaud^{3

6}, Adamos Hadjipanayis^{3

7

8}, Zachi Grossman^{3

9

10}, Kathryn Korslund¹¹, Bryan H King¹², Janet Treasure¹³, Jarosław Peregud-Pogorzelski^{14

15}, Stefano Del Torso^{3

16}, Arunas Valiulis^{3

17

18}, Artur Mazur^{3

19}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.
² Center for Diagnosis, Therapy and Education SPECTRUM ASC-MED, Gdańsk, Poland.
³ The European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP), Brussels, Belgium.
⁴ Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
⁵ Department of Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich Medical Centre, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁶ Faculté de Biologie et de Médecine, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷ School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁸ Department of Paediatrics, Larnaca General Hospital, Larnaca, Cyprus.
⁹ Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel.
¹⁰ Maccabi Health Services, Tel Aviv, Israel.
¹¹ THIRA Health, Bellevue, WA, United States.
¹² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
¹³ Eating Disorder Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Oncology and Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland.
¹⁵ Polish Society of Paediatrics, Warsaw, Poland.
¹⁶ ChildCare WorldWide-CCWWItalia OdV, Padova, Italy.
¹⁷ Clinic of Children's Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Vilnius, Lithuania.
¹⁸ Department of Public Health, Institute of Health Sciences, Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Vilnius, Lithuania.
¹⁹ Department of Paediatrics, College of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland.

Abstract

In the face of the growing number of adolescents suffering from eating disorders (EDs) and access to psychiatric care limited by the epidemiological and demographic situation, the primary care pediatrician's role in diagnosing and treating EDs is growing. The European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) decided to summarize knowledge about EDs and formulate recommendations to support European pediatricians and improve care for adolescents with EDs.

Keywords: anorexia nervosa; binge-eating disorder; bulimia nervosa; early diagnosis; primary care.