Publications by authors named "K M Dann"
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- Health practitioners often feel unprepared to manage eating disorders, so a study aimed to provide extensive training to improve their skills and confidence.
- The "Essentials: Training Clinicians in Eating Disorders" eLearning program offered 7500 free places to healthcare professionals in Australia from January 2020 to March 2022, resulting in 7370 enrollments.
- Post-training, participants showed significant improvement in their knowledge, especially about treating children and adolescents, and most found the course applicable and beneficial for their clinical practice.
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- * It finds that individuals from higher socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to utilize private hospital services for eating disorders, while those from lower SES are more reliant on public outpatient services.
- * The research highlights the equitable use of public hospital and emergency department services across SES levels, suggesting policymakers can use this information to enhance fairness in healthcare accessibility for eating disorders.
Purpose: Developing personal goals beyond weight and shape, and promoting the agency to pursue those goals, could aid in treatment and recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN). This research explores the strengths, interests and goals of individuals currently receiving treatment for AN and evaluates how treatment services are supporting them to work towards personal goals across all areas of everyday life.
Method: A total of 58 community-dwelling adults currently receiving treatment for anorexia nervosa at any stage of recovery completed the Client Assessment of Strengths, Interests and Goals Self-Report (CASIG-SR).
Two decades have elapsed since our publication of 'What kind of illness is anorexia nervosa?'. The question remains whether our understanding of anorexia nervosa and its treatment thereof has evolved over this time. The verdict is disappointing at best.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) is the most common measure of cognitive flexibility in anorexia nervosa (AN), but task-switching paradigms are beginning to be utilized. The current study directly compared performance on a cued task-switching measure and the WCST to evaluate their association in participants with a lifetime diagnosis of AN, and to assess which measure is more strongly associated with clinical symptoms.
Methods: Forty-five women with a lifetime diagnosis of AN completed the WCST, cued color-shape task-switching paradigm, Anti-saccade Keyboard Task, Running Memory Span, Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales short form and Eating Disorder Flexibility Index.