Restrictive Eating Disorders: From Childhood Orality Disorder to Adolescent Dysensoriality

Restrictive Eating Disorders: From Childhood Orality Disorder to Adolescent Dysensoriality (Orality Dysensoriality and Eating Disorder)

This study offers to determine whether adolescent patients with a restrictive eating disorder have variations in their sensoriality compared to a control group.

Eating disorders are a frequent reason for consultation in pediatrics at all ages.

When they are small, children may have an orality disorder. There are multiple potential causes for this disorder: psychogenic, oropraxic but also sensory. The treatment is then adapted to the patient, with, among other things, an orientation towards professionals trained in sensory disorders.

As they grow up, adolescents are particularly at risk of developing eating disorders, which are pathologies that correspond to a biopsychosocial model of understanding that includes psychogenetic, neuroendocrine and immune factors.

Despite major advances in the understanding of this disease, the sensory dimension for these patients is still little studied and is not taken into account in the treatment proposed to adolescents suffering from eating disorders.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent between 12 to 18 years old.
• Non-opposition of the adolescent and his or her legal guardians collected before the start of the study.
• Patient group: Diagnosis of restrictive eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa typical or atypical, ARFID) meeting DSM-5 criteria.
• Control group: absence of eating disorders.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Eating disorders secondary to another psychiatric pathology.
• Precarious health status with somatic and/or psychiatric instability that does not allow to answer the questionnaire.
• Language barrier.
• Opposition of the adolescent and/or his/her legal representatives obtained before the start of the study
• Patient under " AME " (medical state help)