Opitz, Marie-Christine
Savage, Niamh
Talbot, Katie
Trompeter, Nora
Moody, Sarah
Micali, Nadia
Schmidt, Ulrike
Sharpe, Helen
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
Medical Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council (MR/W002418/1)
National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health
UK Research and Innovation (MRC, ESRC, AHRC), the National Institute for Health and Care Research and the Medical Research Foundation (MR/X03058X/1)
Article History
Received: 9 July 2025
Accepted: 13 November 2025
First Online: 23 November 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for the data used in study 1 was obtained from the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee and the Local Research Ethics Committees. The STORY study (study 2) received ethical approval from the London-Bloomsbury Research Ethics Committee in October 2023. Finally, study 3 received ethical approval from the University of Edinburgh Ethics Committee in June 2020.
: Not applicable.
: Nora Trompeter receives an honorarium from Wiley as Associate Editor for Mental Health Science. Nadia Micali receives an honorarium as associate editor on European Eating Disorders review.