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Treatment for female patients with eating disorders in the largest medical prison in Japan.
Article in BioPsychoSocial medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The validity and reliability of the "Factors Related to Theft by Patients with Eating Disorders Questionnaire".Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Recidivism among prisoners with severe mental disorders.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Shoplifting Behavior Among Patients With an Eating Disorder at a Medical Correctional Center in Japan: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- High prevalence of shoplifting in patients with eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2018Article
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Abstract
The number of offenders with eating disorders in women's prisons in Japan has grown annually over the last 15 years. Women's prisons have experienced significant difficulties in the management of patients with eating disorders who have body-critical complications arising from low body weight, in addition to behavioral problems. Patients in Japan's 185 correctional facilities who display high refractoriness or who present a physical risk are transferred to the Hachioji medical prison, a national specialty hospital operated by the Ministry of Justice. The medical prison must manage any psychosomatic problems necessary for the safety of inmates regardless of a patient's wishes. The most common conviction resulting in imprisonment of women with eating disorders was shoplifting (
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