Specialized inpatient treatment of adult anorexia nervosa: effectiveness and clinical significance of changes

BMC Psychiatry

Ulrich Voderholzer¹  Ulrich Cuntz³  Bernd Löwe²  Norbert Quadflieg⁴  Sandra Schlegl⁴ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany;Schoen Klinik Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany;Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria;Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

关键词: Clinical significance;    Effectiveness;    Inpatient;    Cognitive behavioural therapy;    Anorexia nervosa;   

Others  :  1123354
DOI  :  10.1186/s12888-014-0258-z

 received in 2014-05-02, accepted in 2014-08-29,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Previous studies have predominantly evaluated the effectiveness of inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa at the group level. The aim of this study was to evaluate treatment outcomes at an individual level based on the clinical significance of improvement. Patients’ treatment outcomes were classified into four groups: deteriorated, unchanged, reliably improved and clinically significantly improved. Furthermore, the study set out to explore predictors of clinically significant changes in eating disorder psychopathology.

Methods

A total of 435 inpatients were assessed at admission and at discharge on the following measures: body-mass-index, eating disorder symptoms, general psychopathology, depression and motivation for change.

Results

20.0-32.0% of patients showed reliable changes and 34.1-55.3% showed clinically significant changes in the various outcome measures. Between 23.0% and 34.5% remained unchanged and between 1.7% and 3.0% deteriorated. Motivation for change and depressive symptoms were identified as positive predictors of clinically significant changes in eating disorder psychopathology, whereas body dissatisfaction, impulse regulation, social insecurity and education were negative predictors.

Conclusions

Despite high rates of reliable and clinically significant changes following intensive inpatient treatment, about one third of anorexia nervosa patients showed no significant response to treatment. Future studies should focus on the identification of non-responders as well as on the development of treatment strategies for these patients.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Schlegl et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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