@article{ref1,
title="Body Trust, agitation, and suicidal ideation in a clinical eating disorder sample",
journal="International journal of eating disorders",
year="2020",
author="Duffy, Mary E. and Lieberman, Amy and Siegfried, Nicole and Henretty, Jennifer R. and Bass, Garrett and Cox, Shelbi A. and Joiner, Thomas E.",
volume="53",
number="10",
pages="1746-1750",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Research has established pairwise relationships between suicidal ideation (SI), low Body Trust, elevated agitation, and eating disorders, but knowledge of how these aspects relate in a single model is lacking. This study tested an indirect pathway with low Body Trust relating to severity of SI via agitation in a clinical eating disorder sample. METHOD: Participants (N = 319; 92.8% female; 93.4% Caucasian; mean age 21.8 years) were adults currently receiving specialized eating disorder treatment (44.3% intensive outpatient or higher level-of-care) who completed online self-report measures of study variables. The PROCESS macro was utilized to test proposed pathways. RESULTS: Low Body Trust was significantly directly associated with increased severity of current SI, both before (B = -.89, p <.001) and after (B = -.51, p =.001) accounting for the indirect effect through agitation, also significant (B = -.37, SE =.06, CI -.52 to -.26). DISCUSSION: Perception of the body as unsafe may be related to agitation, and this intolerable sensation of trapped arousal could contribute to a desire to die. Future work should investigate these relationships prospectively to determine the relevance of Body Trust for assessment and treatment of suicide-related factors among individuals with eating disorders.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0276-3478",
doi="10.1002/eat.23352",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.23352"
}