ArticleEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2020
Body shape in inpatients with severe anorexia nervosa.
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- Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese body shape questionnaire short form for assessing eating disorder symptoms among university students.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The Relationship and Effects of Self-Esteem and Body Shape on Eating Disorder Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Chinese University Students.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Abnormal sense of agency in eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Increased General, Eating, and Body-Related Psychopathology in Inpatients in a Specialized Eating Disorders Unit after the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Comparison with the Pre-Pandemic Period.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Shame, Guilt, and Self-Consciousness in Anorexia Nervosa.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Body Mass Index Specifiers in Anorexia Nervosa: Anything below the "Extreme"?Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Are marked body shape concerns associated with poorer outcomes at the one-year follow-up in anorexia nervosa?Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- AN-VR-BE. A Randomized Controlled Trial for Reducing Fear of Gaining Weight and Other Eating Disorder Symptoms in Anorexia Nervosa through Virtual Reality-Based Body Exposure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Revisiting the Postulates of Etiological Models of Eating Disorders: Questioning Body Checking as a Longer-Term Maintaining Factor.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe mental disorder. Body shape disturbances are key in the development and maintenance of AN. Only few data are available on inpatients with life-threatening AN. Therefore, we aimed to investigate if body shape difficulties-with a focus on both body checking and avoidance-could improve during hospitalization in both subtypes of AN and to ascertain eventual associations between body shape concerns upon admission and clinical outcome.
methodsUpon hospital admission and end of treatment (EOT), 139 inpatients with AN completed Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ), Body Checking Questionnaire (BCQ), and Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire (BIAQ) in addition to measures of eating and general psychopathology.
resultsPatients with severe AN reported improved BSQ and BIAQ scores at EOT while BCQ did not significantly change. Diagnostic subtypes differed only in baseline BSQ scores and had an impact on the improvement in BSQ at EOT. Baseline BCQ was associated with patients' clinical improvement at EOT, even after controlling for age, duration of illness, Body Mass Index, depression, and anxiety scores.
conclusionsData on body shape concerns and their trajectory during hospitalization for severe AN are lacking; our findings provide support to the effectiveness of hospitalization in improving body shape concerns and body avoidance, but not body checking. Also, baseline body shape concerns (especially body checking) impacted on clinical improvement. Future research is needed to identify treatments that could further improve the therapeutic approach to severe patients of AN in the acute setting.
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