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      Eating disorders in sports and football: an updated review Translated title: Trastornos de la conducta alimentaria en el deporte y en el fútbol: una revisión actualizada Translated title: Transtornos do comportamento alimentario no esporte e futebol: uma revisão atualizada

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          ABSTRACT Disordered eating behaviours and eating disorders (EDs) are prevalent among athletes both at clinical and subclinical levels. This review briefly summarizes and updates the main findings on EDs in sports, with a specific focus on football, a largely ignored athletic modality in which EDs are common and more frequent than expected. We begin presenting EDs in sports and their prevalence. We review the traditional classifications of sports as "low-" and "high-risk" athletic modalities based on prevalence rates and examine recent findings that question the utility of classifying sports and estimating an athlete's vulnerability for developing an ED based only on such dimension. We then focus on other more decisive risk factors involved in the predisposition, precipitation and maintenance of an ED in sports, including socio-cultural, psychosocial, behavioural and athletic-contextual factors. We reflect on current trends in sports and football that may contribute to an increased risk for EDs. Next, recommendations for preventing and managing EDs in sports are discussed, stressing the importance of reducing putative risk factors. Finally, we attend to future areas of research that may enrich our knowledge on this topic, including methodological, empirical and conceptual issues that may lead to further advancements in research and intervention.

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          RESUMEN Los comportamientos alimentarios alterados y los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCAs) tienen una alta prevalencia entre los deportistas tanto a niveles clínicos como subclínicos. Esta revisión resume y actualiza los principales hallazgos sobre TCAs en el deporte, con un énfasis en el fútbol, una modalidad ignorada en la que son comunes y más frecuentes de lo esperado. Comienza presentando los TCAs en el ámbito deportivo y su prevalencia. Se presenta la clasificación tradicional de los deportes como de "alto" y "bajo" riesgo y resultados recientes que cuestionan su utilidad y la de estimar la vulnerabilidad de los deportistas a partir de esta dimensión únicamente. Se comentan otros factores de riesgo más decisivos implicados en la predisposición, aparición y mantenimiento de los TCAs en deportistas, incluyendo factores socio-culturales, psicosociales, comportamentales y deportivos-contextuales. Se reflexiona sobre tendencias actuales en el deporte y en el fútbol que pueden contribuir a un incremento del riesgo de TCAs. Se proponen recomendaciones para la prevención y manejo de los TCAs en el ámbito deportivo. Finalmente, se comentan futuras áreas de investigación que pueden enriquecer nuestro conocimiento sobre esta área, incluyendo cuestiones metodológicas, empíricas y conceptuales que pueden generar importantes avances tanto en investigación como en intervención.

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          RESUMO Os comportamentos alimentares desordenados e os transtornos do comportamento alimentario (TCAs) têm uma alta prevalência entre os atletas em níveis clínicos e subclínicos. Esta revisão resume e atualiza as principais descobertas sobre TCAs no esporte, com ênfase em futebol, uma modalidade atlética amplamente ignorada em que os TCAs são comuns e mais freqüentes do que o esperado. Começa com uma apresentação de os TCAs no esporte e sua prevalência. Revisamos as classificações tradicionais dos esportes como modalidades atléticas de "baixo" e "alto" risco com base nas taxas de prevalência e examinamos descobertas recentes que questionam a utilidade de classificar esportes assim e de estimar a vulnerabilidade dos atletas para desenvolver um TCA baseada apenas nessa dimensão. Para continuar, enfocamos outros fatores de risco mais decisivos envolvidos na predisposição, na precipitação e na manutenção de um TCA no esporte, incluindo fatores sócio-culturais, psicossociais, comportamentais e atléticos-contextuais. Refletimos sobre tendências atuais nos esportes e no futebol que podem contribuir para um risco aumentado para um TCA. Recomendações para a prevenção e manejo de TCAs nos esportes são propostas, destacando a importância de reduzir fatores de risco putativos. Finalmente, são discutidas futuras áreas de investigação que podem enriquecer o nosso conhecimento sobre esse tema, incluindo questões metodológicas, empíricas e conceituais que podem levar a avanços significativos em investigação e intervenção.

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              The purposes of this study were to examine the percentage of female elite athletes and controls with disordered eating (DE) behavior and clinical eating disorders (EDs), to investigate what characterize the athletes with EDs, and to evaluate whether a proposed method of screening for EDs in elite athletes does not falsely classify sport-specific behaviors as indicators of EDs. All athletes representing the national teams at the junior or senior level, aged 13-39 years (n=938), and age-group matched, randomly selected population-based controls (n=900) were invited to participate. From the screening data, a random sample of athletes (n=186) and controls (n=145) were subjects for a clinical interview. More athletes in leanness sports (46.7%) had clinical EDs than athletes in non-leanness sports (19.8%) and controls (21.4%) (P<0.001). Variables predicting clinical EDs, and thus candidates for valid screening procedures, were menstrual dysfunction in leanness athletes, self-reported EDs in non-leanness athletes, and self-reported use of pathogenic weight control methods in controls. Hence, statistically based risk factors are not universally valid, but specifically related to athletes and non-athletes, respectively.
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                cpd
                Cuadernos de Psicología del Deporte
                CPD
                Universidad de Murcia (Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain )
                1578-8423
                1989-5879
                2018
                : 18
                : 2
                : 45-56
                Affiliations
                [2] Andalucía orgnameUniversidad de Granada Spain
                [3] Galicia orgnameUniversidade de Vigo Spain
                [1] Cantabria orgnameUniversidad de Cantabria orgdiv1Escuela Universitaria Gimbernat-Cantabria orgdiv2Servicio de investigación Spain
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                S1578-84232018000200005 S1578-8423(18)01800200005
                8962133f-9175-4f52-8124-d8b2150d4b7c

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.

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                : 23 April 2018
                : 28 November 2017
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