Social media and eating disorder recovery: An exploration of Instagram recovery community users and their reasons for engagement

ES Au, SM Cosh - Eating Behaviors, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Online recovery communities offer support for people with eating disorders who
may not otherwise seek professional help. Instagram is a popular platform that is widely …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing the Evidence Base for Topical Steroid Withdrawal Syndrome in the Research Literature and Social Media Platforms: An Evidence Gap Map

N Orr, M Rogers, A Stein, J Thompson Coon… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Within the dermatological community, topical steroid withdrawal syndrome
(TSWS) is a medically contested condition with a limited research base. Published studies …

[HTML][HTML] Meeting the unmet needs of individuals with mental disorders: scoping review on peer-to-peer web-based interactions

D Storman, P Jemioło, MJ Swierz, Z Sawiec… - JMIR Mental …, 2022 - mental.jmir.org
Background An increasing number of online support groups are providing advice and
information on topics related to mental health. Objective This study aimed to investigate the …

“If I Unfollow Them, It's Not a Dig at Them”: A Narrative Analysis of Instagram Use in Eating Disorder Recovery

I Nikolova, A LaMarre - Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Engaging with the encounters and interactions people have on social media opens the
opportunity to think differently about eating disorder (ED) recoveries. We used narrative …

Adaptation of mental health first aid guidelines for eating disorders for Iran

A Sayarifard, L Ghadirian, H Afshar-Zanjani, F Goli… - BMC psychiatry, 2024 - Springer
Background This study aimed to adapt mental health first aid guidelines to support
individuals with or at risk of developing eating disorders in Iran. This adaptation seeks to …

Navigating the social landscape of Instagram: Exploring the experiences, motivations, and perceptions of eating disorder recovery content creators.

L Hallward, D Alexander, O Feng… - Psychology of Popular …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Social media can provide support for people with eating disorders (EDs); however, it can
also promote unhealthy attitudes and experiences surrounding ED recovery. The purpose of …

The experience of treatment for eating disorders as told by content creators on TikTok

MR Kells, HA Davis, C Roske, S Holzman… - Eating …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
TikTok, a social media platform with substantial youth engagement, has been used to
examine eating disorder (ED) recovery; however, no studies have described the experience …

Motives for using social networking sites: a uses & gratifications perspective amongst people with eating disorder symptoms

AE Dingemans, J Veldhuis, I Lähde - Journal of eating disorders, 2023 - Springer
Studies investigating motives for social networking sites (SNS) use amongst people with
eating disorder (ED) symptoms are scarce. The uses and gratifications theory states that …

Feasibility of comics in health communication: Public responses to graphic medicine on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic

X Zhao, A Feigenbaum… - Journal of Visual Political …, 2021 - intellectdiscover.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has called for effective health communication strategies to better
protect the public's well-being, particularly over social media. Among various strategies …

Social Media as Risk Factor for Eating Disorders

K Parra, L Vandenbosch, L Mas-Manchón - Eating Disorders: An …, 2023 - Springer
This chapter discusses recent research showing associations between different types of
appearance-focused social media activities and body image outcomes. In particular …