Association of participants who screened positive for night eating syndrome with physical health, sleep problems, and weight status in an Australian adult population.

"Declarations Competing interestsHM declares no conflict of interest. PH received royalties from Hogrefe, and Huber and McGraw-Hill publishers for contributions on eating disorders. PH received royalties from Oxford University Press and receives sessional fees and lecture fees from the Australian Medical Council, Therapeutic Guidelines publication, and New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. She is the joint Editor in Chief of the Journal of Eating Disorders. PH was a member of the World Health Organisation Working Group on Feeding and Eating Disorders for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders. PH has received an honorarium from Shire (now Takeda) Pharmaceuticals for a commissioned report and is an advisor to Takeda. ST receives royalties from Taylor and Francis, Hogrefe and Huber and McGraw-Hill for published book chapters. He has received honoraria from Shire/Takeda Group of Companies for chairing the Australian Clinical Advisory Board for Binge Eating Disorder, public speaking engagements, commissioned reports as well as investigator-initiated research grants. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Eating Disorders, an inaugural committee member of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration, a Member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Eating Disorders (Commonwealth of Australia) and a member of the governing council of the Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre. DC declares no conflict of interest. Ethical approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the University of Adelaide Human Research Ethics Committee Protocol Number H-097-2010 and participants provided informed consent. We received Ethics exemption to conduct later analyses on de-identified data from Western Sydney HREC. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interests HM declares no conflict of interest. PH received royalties from Hogrefe, and Huber and McGraw-Hill publishers for contributions on eating disorders. PH received royalties from Oxford University Press and receives sessional fees and lecture fees from the Australian Medical Council, Therapeutic Guidelines publication, and New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. She is the joint Editor in Chief of the Journal of Eating Disorders. PH was a member of the World Health Organisation Working Group on Feeding and Eating Disorders for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders. PH has received an honorarium from Shire (now Takeda) Pharmaceuticals for a commissioned report and is an advisor to Takeda. ST receives royalties from Taylor and Francis, Hogrefe and Huber and McGraw-Hill for published book chapters. He has received honoraria from Shire/Takeda Group of Companies for chairing the Australian Clinical Advisory Board for Binge Eating Disorder, public speaking engagements, commissioned reports as well as investigator-initiated research grants. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Eating Disorders, an inaugural committee member of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration, a Member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Eating Disorders (Commonwealth of Australia) and a member of the governing council of the Australian Eating Disorders Research and Translation Centre. DC declares no conflict of interest."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by CAUL and its Member Institutions. The research was funded by a Shire Pharmaceuticals (Zug, Switzerland, now a member of the Takeda group of companies) Investigator (noncommissioned) grant to ST IIR-AUS-001151 and an internal Western Sydney University School of Medicine fund held by PH."