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Record W4416122181 · doi:10.1186/s40337-025-01435-3

Associations in intentions to use anabolic-androgenic steroids among non-consuming boys and men with probable eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia

2025· article· en· W4416122181 on OpenAlex
Kyle T. Ganson, Timothy Piatkowski, Alexander Testa, Jason M. Nagata

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Eating Disorders · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicEating Disorders and Behaviors
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEating disordersAnorexiaAnorexia nervosaYoung adultComorbidityFeeding behavior

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are used to achieve a muscular and lean body to align with current ideals for boys and men. Identifying associations with intentions to use AAS, a precursor to actual use, is critical for prevention efforts. This study aimed to examine whether boys and men with a probable eating disorder or probable muscle dysmorphia have stronger intentions to use AAS, and whether these intentions differ between these conditions. METHODS: Data from a sample of 1,515 participants from the Study of Boys and Men who had never used AAS were analyzed. To address the study aims, one adjusted linear regression analysis was conducted along with post-hoc Wald tests. RESULTS: Probable anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and muscle dysmorphia were associated with greater intentions to use AAS compared to those with none of these conditions. Post-hoc Wald tests revealed that there were no significant differences in intentions to use AAS between those with probable anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and muscle dysmorphia; however, there were significant differences between these conditions and probable binge-eating disorder. CONCLUSION: The findings from this study add to a growing literature underscoring similar muscularity-oriented features across anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and muscle dysmorphia. Assessment of intentions to use AAS may be warranted among boys and men with eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia to ensure the provision of prevention and early-intervention strategies.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.931

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.283
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it