Psychiatry and Psychology

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder

An eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following: significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children); significant nutritional deficiency; dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements; or marked interference with psychosocial functioning. (from DSM-V)

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Abstract

An eating or feeding disturbance (e.g., apparent lack of interest in eating or food; avoidance based on the sensory characteristics of food; concern about aversive consequences of eating) as manifested by persistent failure to meet appropriate nutritional and/or energy needs associated with one (or more) of the following: significant weight loss (or failure to achieve expected weight gain or faltering growth in children); significant nutritional deficiency; dependence on enteral feeding or oral nutritional supplements; or marked interference with psychosocial functioning. (from DSM-V)

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • ARFID
  • Food Neophobia
  • Food Neophobias
  • Neophobia, Food

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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2020

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  1. F03w.400w.157w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000080146. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000080146
  2. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidant/restrictive_food_intake_disorder
  3. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7447762