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A High Court judge has authorised the discharge of a 28 year old woman with anorexia nervosa into the community after 10 years of inpatient treatment failed to stop her starving herself. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
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Explore treatment response and effectiveness of virtual treatment for a paediatric eating disorder sample. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article outlines the most common types of eating disorders, the importance of the school nurse and factors that have affected the prevalence of eating disorders in young people, highlighting that early intervention and prevention is vital. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Implications for practice and research:
>While specialist interventions may relieve weight-based symptoms in people with anorexia nervosa (AN) in the short term, they have little advantage over comparator treatments in relation to psychological symptoms.
>Further exploration is required into the experiences of people with AN receiving treatment interventions. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Implications for practice and research:
>While specialist interventions may relieve weight-based symptoms in people with anorexia nervosa (AN) in the short term, they have little advantage over comparator treatments in relation to psychological symptoms.
>Further exploration is required into the experiences of people with AN receiving treatment interventions. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
People seem to have a basic drive to assess the correctness of their opinions, abilities, and emotions. Without absolute indicators of these qualities, people rely on a comparison of themselves with others. Social comparison theory can be applied to eating behavior. For example, restrained eaters presented with a standard slice of pizza ate more of a subsequent food if they thought that they had gotten a bigger slice of pizza than others (i.e., had broken their diets), whereas unrestrained eaters ate less. Social influences on eating such as modeling and impression formation also rely on comparison of one’s own eating to others. Comparing one’s food to others’ meals generally influences eating, affect, and satisfaction.
Given that most eating disorders develop in adolescence and early adulthood, early life experiences are said to play a key role in the aetiology of eating disorders. There are well-documented relationships between early maladaptive schemas and eating disorders, early maladaptive schemas and temperament and temperament and perceived parenting style. The present study aimed to test a hypothesis that perceived parenting style predicts temperament, which predicts early maladaptive schemas, which predict eating disorder symptoms in young people.
Bed rest is commonly used on medical and paediatric wards as part of nursing management of the physically compromised patient with severe anorexia nervosa. The aim of this study was to review the evidence base of bed rest as an intervention in the management of severe anorexia nervosa. We searched MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, PsychInfo, CINAHL, HMIC, AMED, HBE, BNI and guidelines written in English until April 2018 using the following terms: bed rest and anorexia nervosa.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Diabulimia has become a common term used to describe a condition when a person with type 1 diabetes has an eating disorder. The individual may omit or restrict their insulin dose to lose/control weight. Evidence suggests that as many as 20% of women with type 1 diabetes may have this condition. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Diabulimia has become a common term used to describe a condition when a person with type 1 diabetes has an eating disorder. The individual may omit or restrict their insulin dose to lose/control weight. Evidence suggests that as many as 20% of women with type 1 diabetes may have this condition. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details.
Relapse after treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) is a significant clinical problem. Given the level of chronicity, morbidity, and mortality experienced by this population, it is imperative to understand the driving forces behind apparently high relapse rates. However, there is a lack of consensus in the field on an operational definition of relapse, which hinders precise and reliable estimates of the severity of this issue. The primary goal of this paper was to review prior studies of AN addressing definitions of relapse, as well as relapse rates.
Open access. A salient feature of anorexia nervosa (AN) is the persistent and severe restriction of food, such that dietary intake is inadequate to maintain a healthy body weight. Experimental tasks and paradigms have used illness-relevant stimuli, namely food images, to study the eating-specific neurocognitive mechanisms that promote food avoidance. This systematic review, completed in accordance with PRISMA guidelines, identified and critically evaluated paradigms involving images of food that have been used to study AN.
Weight-related peer-teasing is considered a potent prospective risk factor for development of disordered eating and clinical eating disorders. Currently, the interplay between genetic and environmental influences has yet to be elucidated. You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Weight suppression (WS—the difference between highest body weight and current body weight) has been proposed as a predictor of treatment outcome within eating disorders (EDs), although this hypothesis has not been consistently supported.. To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. SSOTP (legacy account) - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting
Weight-related issues (including excess weight, disordered eating and body concerns) are often considered as comprising distinct domains of ‘obesity’ and ‘eating disorders’. In this commentary we argue that the concept of weight bias is an important variable when considering wellbeing across the spectrum of weight-related issues. We make the following six points in support of this argument: i) weight bias is common and has adverse health consequences, ii) shaming individuals for their body weight does not motivate positive behaviour change, iii) internalized weight bias is particularly problematic, iv) public health interventions, if not carefully thought out, can perpetuate weight bias, v) weight bias is a manifestation of social inequity, and vi) action on weight bias requires an upstream, population-level approach. To achieve sustainable reductions in weight bias at a population level, substantive modifications and collaborative efforts in multiple settings must be initiated. We provide several examples of population-level interventions to reduce weight bias.
If you haven't had the chance to watch Louis Theroux's documentary Talking To Anorexia on BBC 2 then please take the opportunity to watch it again on iPlayer.
It is a thoughtful, thought-provoking dive into a difficult, dangerous, and debilitating eating disorder.
Our Trust, its staff and some of its patients on the Eating Disorders Clinic at St Ann's featured in the documentary which was both illuminating and heart-breaking as you experience the stories of people suffering with the UK's most deadly mental illnesses.
Less money is being spent on services to treat people with eating disorders in Wales than in England. This is despite more men and boys suffering from eating disorders, according to an investigation by the BBC's Panorama. Panorama asked every mental health trust and board how many men were referred to eating disorder services for a first assessment. From those that responded, in 2016 there were 871 referrals, an increase from 2014 of 43%. It also found a 42% rise in under-18s of both sexes receiving help in 2016 compared with 2014.
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Open access. Research is scarce on patient and parent satisfaction with family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN), especially family-based treatment adapted to inpatient settings. The purpose of this study was to describe and compare patient and parent satisfaction with an inpatient family-based treatment program for adolescent AN, and to investigate whether the level of satisfaction with treatment was associated with eating disorder outcome.