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mental health meeting the following diagnostic criteria (derived from DSM-5-TR):
 1.           Recurrent episodes of night eating, as manifested by eating after awakening from sleep or by excessive food consumption after the evening meal;

              1.            There is awareness and recall of the eating;
              2.           The night eating is not better explained by external influences such as changes in the individual's sleep-wake cycle or by local social norms;
              3.            The night eating causes significant distress and/or impairment in functioning; and
              4.           The disordered pattern of eating is not better explained by binge-eating disorder or another mental disorder, including substance use, and is not attributable to another medical condition or to an effect of medication.

         unspecified feeding or eating disorder means a disorder of mental health meeting the following diagnostic criteria (derived from DSM-5-TR):
 1.           This category applies to presentations in which symptoms characteristic of a feeding and eating disorder that cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning predominate but do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the feeding and eating disorders diagnostic class; and

              1.            Is used in situations in which the clinician chooses not to specify the reason that the criteria are not met for a specific feeding and eating disorder and includes presentations in which there is insufficient information to make a more specific diagnosis (e.g., in emergency room settings).
Note: DSM-5-TR is defined in the Schedule 1 dictionary.
 1.           While eating disorder attracts ICD‑10‑AM code F50.0, F50.1, F50.2, F50.3, F50.4, F50.8, F50.9, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of eating disorder is that given in subsection (2).
 2.           For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from eating disorder
 1.           For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, eating disorder, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's eating disorder.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.
 1.                Basis for determining the factors
On the sound medical‑scientific evidence available, the Repatriation Medical Authority is of the view that it is more probable than not that eating disorder and death from eating disorder can be related to relevant service rendered by veterans or members of the Forces under the VEA, or members under the MRCA.
Note: MRCA, relevant service and VEA are defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.