Co-occurring autism, ADHD, and gender dysphoria in children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders: an examination of pre- vs. post-COVID pandemic outbreak trends with real-time electronic health record data
Rates of autism, ADHD, and GD are significantly higher in individuals with ED in the post-pandemic 2020-2022 cohort in comparison to the pre-pandemic 2017-2019 cohort, even after controlling for baseline levels of co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses. Such findings reveal a critical gap in our current understanding of the totality of ways in which COVID-19 may have impacted the onset and clinical course of EDs, autism, ADHD, and GD among children, adolescents, and young adults.
Authors
- Wisteria Deng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6563-7772)
- Katherine V. Liebesny
- Kevin Y. Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6595-695X)
- Tashalee Rushell Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2367-8821)
- Madeline O. Jansen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9544-0321)
- A. Ning Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1746-4210)
- Dominic Moog
- Hui Xie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2788-4064)
- Binx Y. Lin
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Yale University (US)
- San Francisco Department of Public Health (US)
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (US)
- Carilion Clinic (US)
- Virginia Tech (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Published
- 2024-08-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1402312
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.92
Funders
- American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Carilion Clinic
- American Psychiatric Association Foundation
- National Institute on Drug Abuse