ArticleNutrients2021
Why Do Women with Eating Disorders Decline Treatment? A Qualitative Study of Barriers to Specialized Eating Disorder Treatment.
Article in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic Review of Patient Preferences and Experiences Regarding Dietetic Outpatient Care.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Pooled it
- Stepping into day treatment approach versus inpatient treatment for adults with anorexia nervosa: the DAISIES RCT.Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) · 2025Trial
- The effects of waiting time for outpatient psychotherapeutic interventions on patient-reported outcomes in adolescents and adults with eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- A Program-Led Motivational App (MI-Coach: ED) for Eating Disorder Waitlists: Findings From a Feasibility and Acceptability Pilot Trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Virtual Reality-Based Avatar Intervention for Eating Disorders: Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Barriers Individuals From Racial-Ethnic Minority Groups Face in Accessing Eating Disorder Treatment and Proposed Solutions.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
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- Premature termination of eating disorder treatment - a qualitative study of therapist perspectives.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Discordant conceptualisations of eating disorder recovery and their influence on the construct of terminality.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Inaccessibility of care and inequitable conceptions of suffering: a collective response to the construction of "terminal" anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- A lived experience response to the proposed diagnosis of terminal anorexia nervosa: learning from iatrogenic harm, ambivalence and enduring hope.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
Despite the fact that eating disorders (EDs) are conditions that are potentially life-threatening, many people decline treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate why women decline specialized ED treatment, including their viewpoints on treatment services. Eighteen semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with women who had declined inpatient or outpatient specialized ED treatment. A thematic analysis revealed five main themes: (1) Disagreement on treatment needs, (2) rigid standard procedures, (3) failure to listen, (4) deprivation of identity, and (5) mistrust and fear. The women had declined ED treatment because they believed that treatment was only focused on nutritional rehabilitation and that it failed to address their self-identified needs. From their perspectives treatment was characterized by rigid standard procedures that could not be adapted to their individual situations and preferences. They felt that the therapists failed to listen to them, and they felt deprived of identity and reduced to an ED instead of a real person. This investigation is one of the first of its kind to provide clues as to how treatment could be moderated to better meet the needs of women who decline specialized ED treatment.
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