背景:工作成瘾(WA)以前与几种疾病和障碍有关,但是关于它与饮食失调(ED)的关系的文献很少。WA和ED具有相似的病因(尤其是严格的完美主义)和临床特征。这项研究的目的是提供有关这种潜在共病的文献的初步概述。并调查ED和WA的共存情况,以及它们与社会人口统计学和工作相关变量的关系,健康,和个性。
方法:在一项笔和笔的横断面研究中,卑尔根工作成瘾量表(BWAS),关于当前或先前诊断的ED和其他精神障碍的问题,人格问卷,以及有关人口统计的问题,对723名来自不同职业的波兰雇员进行了健康和工作相关变量管理。
结果:六名女性(0.8%),没有一名男性被诊断患有ED,也就是说,在很大程度上,与一般人群的预期患病率一致。这六名女性中有五名(83%)达到了西澳州的截止分数。在所有达到这个界限的女人中,5.5%报告了ED。所有这些女人都二十多岁,没有结婚,没有孩子,在非管理职位上工作,体重指数(BMI)在正常范围或以下。与匹配的对照组进行初步比较。
结论:这些初步结果表明,WA可能在诊断为ED的专业活跃女性中非常普遍。在工作场所患有ED的个人的功能是一个被广泛研究的问题,由于健康并发症导致的高自杀风险和死亡率,因此值得更多关注。尤其是心血管疾病(CVD),与ED和过度工作有关,亚临床ED在女性人群中的显著患病率(尤其是在年轻人中),与其他疾病共病的ED预后通常较差。两种有问题的行为都与否认有关,这表明这些问题可能比目前的估计表明的要普遍得多。
BACKGROUND: Work addiction (WA) has been previously linked to several diseases and disorders, but there is scarce literature on its association with eating disorders (EDs). Both WA and EDs share similar etiological factors (notably rigid perfectionism) and clinical features. The aim of this study was to provide an initial overview of the literature on this potential comorbidity, and investigate the co-occurrence of EDs and WA, and their relationship with sociodemographic and work-related variables, health, and personality.
METHODS: In a pen-and-pencil cross-sectional study, the Bergen Work Addiction Scale (BWAS), a question about a current or previous diagnosis of EDs and other mental disorders, personality questionnaires, and questions concerning demographic, health and work-related variables were administered to 723 Polish employees from various professions.
RESULTS: Six females (0.8%) and none of the males declared having been diagnosed with EDs, which is, to a large extent, congruent with the expected prevalence in the general population. Five out of these six females (83%) reached the cut-off score for WA. Of all women who reached this cut-off, 5.5% reported EDs. All these women were in their twenties, not married, having no children, working in non-managerial positions, with body mass index (BMI) in the normal range or below. Preliminary comparisons with matched comparison groups were conducted.
CONCLUSIONS: These initial results suggest that WA may be highly prevalent among professionally active women diagnosed with EDs. Functioning of individuals with EDs in the workplace is a vastly understudied issue which merits more attention owing to high suicide risk and mortality due to health complications, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD), related to EDs and overworking, a significant prevalence of subclinical EDs in female populations (especially among youth), and a typically worse prognosis for EDs comorbid with other disorders. Both problematic behaviors are related to denial, which suggests that these may be much more prevalent problems than current estimates indicate.