EDCRN (Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network)

Eating Disorder Awareness Week reminds us that recovery is rooted in community💙

Together, we can challenge stigma, support one another, and build a culture of care where well-being comes first.

📣Join EDCRN in creating a more compassionate and connected community.

📚A fascinating journal club this week from the PEACE pathway about the sensory landscape and embodied experiences in anorexia nervosa.

To read the full paper, follow this link: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39685631/

📣Registration is now open for F.E.A.S.T. of Knowledge 2026: an online conference for parents & caregivers of people with eating disorders.

🔗Register here: feast-ed.org/2026-feast-o...

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on how early weight-loss behaviours are linked to sleep and mental health later in adolescence💤

The findings highlight how closely eating behaviours, mood, and physical health are connected over time.

Read more via Linktree☝️

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on autism and eating disorder risk.

The study highlights how sensory overwhelm and social camouflaging can combine to increase eating disorder symptoms in autistic adults.

Read more via our Linktree ☝️

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on childhood food insecurity and eating disorder symptoms.

The study highlights how early experiences with food insecurity can be linked to disordered eating in adolescence.

Read more via the link in our bio ☝️

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on public engagement in eating disorder research.

The paper highlights why involving lived experience, carers, clinicians, and researchers is essential.

Read more via the link in our bio☝️

🗞️This week’s Journal Club explores research on how hunger affects mood, mental health, and everyday functioning.

The findings highlight the close links between hunger, emotions, and wellbeing.

Read more via the link in our bio ☝️

This week’s Journal Club, we explored predictors of treatment outcomes in early intervention for eating disorders 📊

Using FREED data @freedfromed.bsky.social the study highlights how stress, symptoms, and waiting times can shape recovery outcomes.

Read more on our Linktree 💙

Shout out to @eatsleeplaugh.bsky.social, @emynimbley.bsky.social, Kyle Buchan and the @edaceatingautism.bsky.social team for an awesome publication - the subject of @edcrn.bsky.social latest journal club! 😀

🗞️ This week’s journal club features a study exploring how autistic people with lived experience can guide eating disorder research.

The findings underline the importance of inclusive, creative, and experience-led approaches.

Read more in our Linktree! ☝️

📄 This week’s journal club looks at a study exploring how eating disorder symptoms differ across diverse groups of young people.
The findings highlight why inclusive data matters for early detection - something EDCRN is working to strengthen.

Read more in our Linktree!☝️

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This week’s journal club highlights a study exploring what parents and caregivers feel supports real change in family therapy for anorexia.
Their insights highlight the crucial role families play in recovery.

Read more in our Linktree! ☝️

Curious about what it means to be part of EDCRN?
✨Here’s a glimpse of what joining the EDCRN as a site will look like!
To learn more or express interest, email edcrn@kcl.ac.uk

🎗️Awareness is the first step towards change.
Men deserve to be included, feel seen, and feel supported.

At EDCRN, we’re pushing for better understanding, recognition, and treatment of eating disorders in men 💚

#edcrn #eatingdisorders #eatingdisordersresearch #mensmentalhealth

Help shape the future of Eating Disorders! 📃

🔗 Take part in our survey now, link in bio

Closes: 16th Nov, Midnight

#eatingdisorderresearch #eatingdisoder #edcrn #researchmatters #edawareness #mentalhealth

Say hello 👋 to our placement students!

We are excited to have them on board. 🎉 Welcome to the team! #EDCRN @edgiuk.bsky.social @gladstudy.bsky.social #EatingDisorder

Are you interested in eating disorders funding and research?🔬
Please help us develop some key messaging to deliver to stakeholders to help increase investment in eating disorder research by completing the following survey!
qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

A valuable read from @ameaustin.bsky.social and @karina-maudsley.bsky.social on the importance of collecting routine outcome measures in eating disorders - and the potential of this to tranform care for individuals affected 🫶🏻🤍

🔬This week’s journal club ➡️ Our co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen, recently published this paper on why routine outcome measurement is key in the eating disorders field.

Read the paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40640949/

Happy World Mental Health Day! 🧠

The theme this year is ‘Access to Services - Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies’.

Seven positives I took away from eating disorder treatment Anna Carnegie, researcher and person with lived experience of eating disorders and OCD writes about the positives she took away from Eating Disorder Treatment

📢New blog alert📢

@annacarnegie.bsky.social from @edcrn.bsky.social talks about the importance of trust in treatment, and how being treated as a unique individual with different interests and hopes for the future helped her recover from anorexia.

www.dumpthescales.org/post/seven-p...

🔬 This week’s journal club is a paper authored by EDCRN’s co-principal investigator, Dr Karina Allen! The paper looks at the effect of early interventions on young people with eating disorders.

To read the paper, see 👉 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40878998/

🔬This week's journal club is a paper by James Downs, a member of our Lived Experience Steering Committee, and Clive Kelly, with some fascinating insights into Anorexia Nervosa in males. To see the full paper, see here 👉 www.magonlinelibrary.com/doi/full/10....

Read the full paper 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This week's journal club features a paper from our excellent colleague and PhD researcher, Saakshi Kakar, in which she conducted a large-scale analysis of under-recognised weight loss behaviours in individuals with eating disorders.

Currently, eating disorder services do not collect consistent routine data, which means we have limited knowledge of the effectiveness of care.

Funded by us, a new study has identified a standardised dataset to be collected by a clinical research network in the UK, EDCRN (@edcrn.bsky.social). [1/3]

Agreeing a set of biopsychosocial variables for collection across the UK Eating Disorders Clinical Research Network (EDCRN): A consensus study using adapted nominal group technique

💙To read the brilliant paper, click the link below or check out our Linktree Journal Club Collection!
kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

💙 Quote from a Lived Experience Representative from the Children & Young Persons workshop: “Relationship building is key before jumping into questionnaires. It’s important to reduce shame and build trust, particularly for people who feel vulnerable.”