Publications by authors named "Barbara Mezzani"
Article Synopsis
- Eating disorders (ED) are linked to unhealthy attitudes toward food that hurt both physical and mental well-being, greatly lowering health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and contributing to feelings of isolation.
- A study examining 220 ED patients revealed that loneliness and eating psychopathology both negatively impacted HRQoL, with specific predictors depending on the patient’s weight category.
- The findings stress the need to address HRQoL and loneliness in ED treatments, particularly for younger individuals, and suggest a significant relationship between a person's weight and their feelings of loneliness that merits further exploration.
We examined the pattern of access to hospital emergency room (hER) in 2018-2021 among patients with eating disorders (ED) from Florence, Italy, diagnosed during 1994-2018, using a matched cohort design. We included 902 ED patients and an equal number of sex-, age-, and residence-matched individuals. We fitted conditional Poisson regression models with robust variance estimator to estimate incidence rate ratios (IRR) and 95% confidence intervals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMortality and care of eating disorders.
Acta Psychiatr Scand
February 2023
Introduction: Eating disorders (EDs) are considered serious mental illnesses, with one of the highest lethality among psychiatric disorders, even though the issue of mortality due to these conditions is still controversial. The present study was aimed at comparing the mortality rate in a cohort of ED patients representative of the geographic area with that of the age and gender-matched general population of central Italy.
Methods: Patients were enrolled between 1994 and 2018, among those attending the eating disorders treatment network of the Florence area (EDTN), which is a regional multidisciplinary treatment reference center for EDs covering the clinical population of the metropolitan Florence area (Italy).