People with eating disorders deteriorated due to covid, study says

Some 75% of respondents reported that their drive for thinness worsened during the pandemic. Picture: iStock

A new study has found that covid worsened overall symptoms of eating disorders for many sufferers.

The study, published in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, was conducted among adult patients attending the eating disorder service at St Patrick’s Mental Health Services in Dublin for one year before the pandemic.