{"doi":"10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.053","title":"Comorbidity of self-harm and disordered eating in young people: Evidence from a UK population-based cohort","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Self-harm and eating disorders are often comorbid in clinical samples but their co-occurrence in the general population is unclear. Given that only a small proportion of individuals who self-harm or have disordered eating present to clinical services, and that both self-harm and eating disorders are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality, it is important to study these behaviours at a population level. METHODS: We assessed the co-occurrence of self-harm and disordered eating behaviours in 3384 females and 2326 males from a UK population-based cohort: the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Participants reported on their self-harm and disordered eating behaviours (fasting, purging, binge-eating and excessive exercise) in the last year via questionnaire at 16 and 24 years. At each age we assessed how many individuals who self-harm also reported disordered eating, and how many individuals with disordered eating also reported self-harm. RESULTS: We found high comorbidity of self-harm and disordered eating. Almost two-thirds of 16-year-old females, and two-in-five 24-year old males who self-harmed also reported some form of disordered eating. Young people with disordered eating reported higher levels of self-harm at both ages compared to those without disordered eating. LIMITATIONS: We were not able to measure whether participants identified their disordered eating as a method of self-harm. CONCLUSIONS: Self-harm and disordered eating commonly co-occur in young people in the general population. It is important to screen for both sets of difficulties to provide appropriate treatment.","journal":"Journal of Affective Disorders","year":2021,"id":164407,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":38,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9671,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":93778,"name":"Jon Heron","orcid":"0000-0001-6199-5644","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":337459,"name":"Becky Mars","orcid":"0000-0002-8132-6920","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":105675,"name":"Paul Moran","orcid":"0000-0002-9257-8699","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":570858,"name":"Anne Stewart","orcid":"0000-0001-6560-2553","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":6136,"name":"Marcus Robert Munafo","orcid":"0000-0002-4049-993X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":337460,"name":"Lucy Biddle","orcid":"0000-0002-1090-8771","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":570859,"name":"Andy Skinner","orcid":"0000-0001-7019-163X","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":23072,"name":"David Gunnell","orcid":"0000-0002-0829-6470","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":570860,"name":"Helen Bould","orcid":"0000-0001-8163-3210","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":570857,"name":"Naomi Warne","orcid":"0000-0001-6160-8982","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":19,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:45:32.226038Z","pmid":"33421867","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}