Publications by authors named "Michael Svitak"
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- The study analyzed the effectiveness of trauma-focused psychotherapy for 612 PTSD inpatients, focusing on changes in clinical symptom severity.
- Hedges g-corrected effect sizes showed medium to large improvements across various outcomes, indicating the therapy's success.
- Predictive models using sociodemographic and clinical variables identified factors like psychoticism and the total number of diagnoses as negatively impacting treatment outcomes, potentially aiding in personalized care.
Objective: Research on the prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) in individuals with eating disorders (EDs) is scarce. Nonweight-related appearance concerns, which can be considered as variants of BDD concerns, have also rarely been examined in EDs. This study therefore investigates BDD prevalence and nonweight-related appearance concerns in EDs.
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