Inpatients with eating disorders: demographic, diagnostic, and service characteristics from a nationwide pediatric sample.

Objective: This study describes the demographic and clinical characteristics of youth hospitalized with an eating disorder, using the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS) database.

Method: Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to examine and compare PHIS inpatients (N = 1,713) with a primary discharge diagnosis of anorexia, bulimia, or eating disorder, not otherwise specified.

Results: Of pediatric inpatients with eating disorders, 92% were female and 78% were non-Hispanic white.

Meal support training for friends and families of patients with eating disorders.

Families have identified their need for practical guidance on how to be most helpful to a member with an eating disorder while those recovered have recognized the importance of relationships in getting better. The manual and video described in this article were created collaboratively with families and patients to facilitate support during what is often a particularly stressful event--mealtimes. A collaborative stance is preferred at all times while taking a persistent problem-solving approach to finding solutions to improving the meals.

Neuropsychological characteristics and test behaviors of boys with early onset conduct problems.

School-age children and adolescents with conduct problems typically exhibit deficits in verbal IQ, language abilities, and executive functions. This study examined the extent to which this pattern was evident in a clinic group of preschool boys with early onset conduct problems who met criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A 2nd question focused on the strength of relation between clinic boys' uncooperative or inattentive test behaviors and their test performance.