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ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2023

Caregivers in anorexia nervosa: is grief underlying parental burden?

Jeanne Duclos, Giulia Piva, Élise Riquin, Christophe Lalanne, Dominique Meilleur, Soline Blondin, EVHAN Group, Solange Cook-Darzens, Nathalie Godart

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Article in Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Jeanne Duclos *Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9193-SCALab-Cognitive and Affective Sciences, 59000, Lille, France. jeanne.duclos@univ-lille.fr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7454-0021
Giulia Piva *Centre Hospitalier Le Vinatier, 69678, Bron, France.
Élise RiquinService de Psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, CHU Angers, Angers, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5956-3014
Christophe LalanneUniversité Paris Cité, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1915-2824
Dominique MeilleurDepartment of Psychology, Adolescence and Eating Disorders Research Laboratory, Montreal University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Soline BlondinDepartment of Psychology, Adolescence and Eating Disorders Research Laboratory, Montreal University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
EVHAN Group
Solange Cook-Darzens *Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, France.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-2520
Nathalie Godart *Fondation de Santé des Etudiants de France, Paris, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRHôpital Robert-Debré · FRInserm · FRUniversité de Montréal · CAUniversité Paris Cité · FRUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

abstarctPURPOSE: Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe chronic disorder and parents' experience of caregiving is usually marked by emotional distress and burden. Severe chronic psychiatric disorders are known to be linked with the concept of grief. Grief has not been investigated in AN. The aim of this study was to explore parents' and adolescents' characteristics that may be related to parental burden and grief in AN, and the link between these two dimensions.

methodsEighty mothers, 55 fathers and their adolescents (N  =  84) hospitalized for AN participated in this study. Evaluations of clinical characteristics of the adolescent's illness were completed, as well as self-evaluations of adolescent and parental emotional distress (anxiety, depression, alexithymia). Levels of parental burden were evaluated with the Experience of Caregiving Inventory and levels of parental grief with the Mental Illness Version of the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief.

resultsMain findings indicated that the burden was higher in parents of adolescents with a more severe AN; fathers' burden was also significantly and positively related to their own level of anxiety. Parental grief was higher when adolescents' clinical state was more severe. Paternal grief was related to higher anxiety and depression, while maternal grief was correlated to higher alexithymia and depression. Paternal burden was explained by the father's anxiety and grief, maternal burden by the mother's grief and her child's clinical state.

conclusionParents of adolescents suffering from AN showed high levels of burden, emotional distress and grief. These inter-related experiences should be specific targets for intervention aimed at supporting parents. Our results support the extensive literature on the need to assist fathers and mothers in their caregiving role. This in turn may improve both their mental health and their abilities as caregivers of their suffering child. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III: Evidence obtained from cohort or case-control analytic studies.

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Anorexia NervosaAdolescentCaregiversChildFemaleGriefHumansParent-Child RelationsParentsAnorexia nervosaBurdenCaregivingGender roleLiving griefParents

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