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BMC PSYCHIATRY
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-13-287
Keywords
Eating disorders; Anorexia Nervosa; Inpatients; Treatment response; Predictors; Treatment
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- Department of Health NIHR [RP-PG-0606-1043]
- National Institute for Health Research [RP-PG-0606-1043] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR) [RP-PG-0606-1043] Funding Source: National Institutes of Health Research (NIHR)
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Background: Individual, family and service level characteristics and outcomes are described for adult and adolescent patients receiving specialist inpatient or day patient treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). Potential predictors of treatment outcome are explored. Method: Admission and discharge data were collected from patients admitted at 14 UK hospital treatment units for AN over a period of three years (adult units N = 12; adolescent N = 2) (patients N = 177). Results: One hundred and seventy-seven patients with a severe and enduring illness with wide functional impairment took part in the study. Following inpatient care, physical improvement was moderate/good with a large increase in BMI, although most patients continued to have a clinical level of eating disorder symptoms at discharge. The potentially modifiable predictors of outcome included confidence to change, social functioning and carer expressed emotion and control. Conclusions: Overall, the response to inpatient treatment was modest particularly in the group with a severe enduring form of illness. Adolescents had a better response. Although inpatient treatment produces an improvement in physical health there was less improvement in other eating disorder and mood symptoms. As predicted by the carer interpersonal maintenance model, carer behaviour may influence the response to inpatient care, as may improved social functioning and confidence to change.
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