ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2002
Patients with eating disorders. How well are family physicians managing them?
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- Eating Disorders Education for Healthcare Students and Non-Specialist Providers: Identifying and Filling a Critical Training Gap.Current psychiatry reports · 2025Review
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- Improvements in Adolescents' Disordered Eating Behaviors in a Collaborative Care Digital Mental Health Intervention: Retrospective Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Challenges in eating disorder diagnosis and management among family physicians and trainees: a qualitative study.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Emergency medicine physicians' knowledge and perceptions of training, education, and resources in eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the Referral Process and Patterns to a Canadian Specialized Eating Disorders Treatment Program.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2019Article
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- Parental Involvement and Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders: Perspectives from Residents in Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Family Medicine.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2017Article
- Assessment and treatment of pediatric eating disorders: a survey of physicians and psychologists.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2012Article
- General practitioner attitudes towards referral of eating-disordered patients: a vignette study based on the theory of planned behaviour.Mental health in family medicine · 2008Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess the attitudes and behaviour of family physicians toward patients with eating disorders (EDs) and to assess these physicians' ongoing learning needs.
designConfidential survey by mail.
settingFamily practices in London, Ont.
participantsTwo hundred thirty-six general FPs.
main outcome measuresProportion of FPs seeing patients with EDs, screening and management practices, learning needs.
resultsSurvey response rate was 87.7%; 64% of respondents were male, 36% were female, and 54% had completed a family medicine residency program. Overall, FPs were more comfortable with diagnosis, and less comfortable with management, of EDs. Most respondents shared care with other professionals, usually psychiatrists and nutritionists. Female physicians had identified a larger number of ED patients in their practices and were more likely to screen routinely for EDs. Three quarters of FPs rated their undergraduate training in EDs as poor, and 59% thought their postgraduate training was poor. Outpatient services, diagnostic issues, screening needs, and management planning were identified as important learning needs. Family physicians thought these needs could be best addressed in interactive workshops or peer-led case-discussion groups.
conclusionFamily physicians are important in first-line treatment of EDs, but many barriers prevent effective diagnosis and management. Validated screening tools and management strategies could assist FPs in caring for patients with EDs.
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