NCT01544400

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

Description and Evaluation of Eating Disorders in Elite Athletes

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 386 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Eating Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Boulimia Nervosa
• Binge Eating Disorders

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-01-01
• First posted: 2012-03-05
• Last updated: 2016-08-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France