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April 2024

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Experience of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

Tuesday 30 April

Have you experienced or cared for someone with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)? Are you a healthcare professional that treats people with this eating disorder? Researchers from Queensland University of Technology are investigating ARFID, with a particular focus on diagnosis and treatment from the perspectives of lived experience, loved ones, carers, and clinicians.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

SEED: a phone app to treat eating disorder symptoms in gay and bisexual cis-men

Tuesday 30 April

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are looking for gay and bisexual cis-men with body image and/or eating difficulties to trial the SEED app. SEED is 10-week app-based prevention and early intervention program targeting eating disorder symptoms in adults.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Toward Embodied Healing: Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy for Body Image

Thursday 11 April

The aim of this study is to trial a new treatment for body image disturbance in women who have a history of anorexia nervosa, using psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy (PAP).

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Caring for a Young Person with an Eating Disorder

Thursday 11 April

Researchers at Swinburne University, in partnership with Eating Disorders Families Australia, are seeking volunteers to participate in a research project exploring the experience and impact of caring for a young person with an eating disorder, in addition to caregivers’ needs and experiences.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Assessing the Influence of Caregiver Factors on FBT for Eating Disorders

Wednesday 3 April

This research is seeking caregivers of adolescents aged 6-18 in current or recent eating disorder treatment. Participants will complete a Qualtrics survey once, requiring approximately 20 minutes.

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March 2024

RESEARCH PROJECTS

ScreenED: Co-design Workshop Study

Monday 25 March

Researchers at Melbourne University are seeking young people with eating disorder lived experience, carers, and families to help shape a high-quality screening tool to detect eating disorders in primary school aged children.

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RESEARCH PROJECTS

Relationship quality in anorexia nervosa

Thursday 14 March

Researchers at Deakin University are currently seeking volunteers to participate in an online study investigating how attitudes towards body image and food influence our relationships with friends and family. Adults aged 18-30 years are eligible to take part.

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BLOG POSTS

Ramadan, fasting and eating disorders

Wednesday 6 March

Ramadan is a holy month for Muslims worldwide and is a month of fasting, prayer, reflection and community. For those living with an eating disorder, making the decision of whether to partake in fasting or not can bring about a lot of guilt, confusion and worry due to concerns over relapsing.

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NEWS

Eating Disorders Alliance (EDA) welcomes potential ban of compounded weight loss drugs

Monday 4 March

The Eating Disorders Alliance (EDA) has welcomed the potential ban of on compounded weight loss drugs, saying such a move would help to protect those vulnerable to eating disorders.

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January 2024

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Supporting adults with medically compromised eating disorders

Wednesday 10 January

Metro North Hospital and Health Service wish to extend an opportunity to carers of adult patients with eating disorders to participate in an upcoming research project - a co-designed investigation into a support system for those patients returning home from a hospital stay.  

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Georgia's story - choosing recovery everyday

If you are just starting on your recovery journey, I want to tell you firstly how proud I am of you for taking those steps, and to not give up entirely if you have slip ups along the way – it is part of the journey, no story of recovery is linear.

Georgia's story