Prevalence of body-focused repetitive behaviors in a diverse population sample - rates across age, gender, race and education

DISCUSSION: BFRBs are ubiquitous. More severe forms, BFRDs, manifest in approximately one out of four people. In view of the often-irreversible somatic sequelae (e.g. scars) BFRBs/BFRDs deserve greater diagnostic and therapeutic attention by clinicians working in both psychology/psychiatry and somatic medicine (especially dermatology and dentistry).PMID:38087951 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291723003392

Source: Psychological Medicine - December 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Steffen Moritz Jakob Scheunemann Lena Jelinek Danielle Penney Stella Schmotz Luca Hoyer Dominik Grudzie ń Adrianna Aleksandrowicz Source Type: research