A major study by InsideOut Institute for Eating Disorders at the University of Sydney reveals a widespread escalation of eating disorder symptoms during COVID-19 lockdown in Australia, with 40 percent going undiagnosed.

InsideOut researchers tracked 1,723 people with eating disorder symptoms over the July – October 2020 COVID wave, including Victoria’s major lockdown - making it one of the largest observational studies to capture the impact of the pandemic in Australia.

The study has just been published in the Journal of Eating Disorders.