Sarah Giles

Provisional Psychologist | PhD Candidate | @unimelb | Eating disorder and autism research

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@EmmaAusten20 Thank you!!!! 🥰

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@VerdejoGAntonio @InsideOutInst @SydneyLHD Thank you Antonio! Looking forward to seeing the amazing work you will do within the Translation Work Stream!

[Eating Disorders Families Australia @edf_aust]

EDFA is proud to contribute the carers' perspective to University of Melbourne Researcher Sarah Giles' project to help teenagers with eating disorders better transition to adult care.

Sarah was awarded a $25,000 @InsideOutInst IgnitED Fund grant today to undertake the project.

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

just say you find it emasculating when women seem more successful than you and go.

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@Steph_E_Miles @FhadSwinburne Congratulations Steph!! Amazing work!! 🌈🌈🌈

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@DrJeanForney @EmmaAusten20 @krug_isabel Yes I agree!! Part of our aim was to determine whether the clusters corresponded to DSM-5 severity indices. However, the DSM privileges frequency, rather than multiple methods of purging, when determining severity. I think no. of methods is more informative!

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

‼️New Paper Alert ‼️
Lead by @krug_isabel we used cluster analyses in a large sample of individuals diagnosed with Purging Disorder (PD) to assess categorical and dimensional symptom differences within this group. Three distinct PD symptom clusters emerged.

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@Scott1Griffiths Okay, #BoPo is my new nice.

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

However! Further research is needed as the frequency of purging behaviours may not be the defining feature of PD prognosis. Therefore, defining PD severity by this metric may not be clinically informative. Link to article here!! https://t.co/YkPvjXNWeI

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

The three clusters showed some correspondence to the DSM-5 severity index for purging behaviours for Bulimia Nervosa (see bar charts). Cluster 1 emerged as a milder form of PD, while Cluster 3 was characterised by a more severe presentation of PD.

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@NeuroJesse Amazing!!

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

@georgiebuckley_ Even more inspirational!!

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

Yes Georgie!!! Proud as punch.

[Dr Georgie Buckley @GeorgieBuckley_]

I featured on the Nail Your Nutrition podcast and spoke about disordered eating in athletes, my own lived experience as an elite distance runner and all I’ve been doing in my PhD these last few years. Find it here https://t.co/rRRAyXRHxE

[Lauren Leavell (she/her) @leavell_lauren]

If you're still feeling like "getting fat" is the worst thing that can happen this year, we are not the same kind of people.

[Julie Duffy Dillon (she/her) @FoodVoiceRD]

People with PCOS are consistently told to first + foremost focus on weight loss to manage the condition + its symptoms, to qualify for access to reproductive medicine, + shamed when weight loss doesn’t happen long term. It’s time to review the #PCOS weight science. A thread.

[Dr Zali Yager @ZaliYager]

There's a lot of videoconferencing happening for work, social, and study right now- we want to understand the psychological impact of this... To take part please complete the short survey at this link: https://t.co/X7MQWpNJWm

[Fiona Sutherland @FionaBodyPosAus]

My hope for #ICED2020 that we have been listening to those who are have told us repeatedly about the harms of words & language that describes bodies in pathological ways. #crossedfingers

[Sarah Giles @SarahGiles23]

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