Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in Inpatients at a Childrenâs Hospital

Inpatient experience of anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an extremely serious mental illness, with a high mortality rate and many debilitating physical and psychological symptoms. While hospitalisation is sometimes required for patients with AN there remains no evidence base for “best practice’ inpatient treatment. With patients’ views recognised as critical to improving efficiency and outcomes, calls have been made for more ...

Somatic comorbidity in anorexia nervosa: First results of a 21-year follow-up study on female inpatients

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychosomatic disease with somatic complications in the long-term course and a high mortality rate. Somatic comorbidities independent of anorexia nervosa have rarely been studied, but pose a challenge to clinical practitioners. We investigated somatic comorbidities in an inpatient cohort and compared somatically ill anorexic patients and patients without ...

Stages of change, treatment outcome and therapeutic alliance in adult inpatients patients with anorexia nervosa

Mortality in anorexia nervosa.

OBJECTIVE The author's goal was to shed light on the debate regarding the mortality rate over time associated with anorexia nervosa. METHOD He conducted a meta-analytic study using weighted linear regression to combine crude mortality proportions from 42 published studies to estimate the mortality associated with anorexia nervosa over time. RESULTS The crude rate of mortality due to all cau...

Emotion regulation difficulties in anorexia nervosa before and after inpatient weight restoration.

OBJECTIVE This study examined: (1) changes in emotion regulation difficulties in underweight inpatients with anorexia nervosa (AN) following weight restoration, (2) differences in emotion regulation between AN subtypes at acute and weight-restored stages of illness. METHOD Repeated measure analyses of variance examined changes in scores on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; G...