A comparison between young males and females with anorexia nervosa in a clinical setting.

Background: Knowledge of eating disorders in young and adolescent males is sparse.

Aim: To investigate clinical presentations in males and females with anorexia nervosa (AN).

Methods: Using a retrospective case-control design, data were collected from case records for 41 males diagnosed with AN.

Long-Term Outcome of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: Family Treatment Apartments Compared With Child Psychiatric Inpatient Treatment.

The family is rarely involved in treatment when the patient with anorexia nervosa (AN) is hospitalized. Family treatment apartment (FTA) represents an intervention that includes the family in the intensive treatment of AN. This study compares the short- and long-term outcomes of adolescents treated in FTA with those who received inpatient hospital care.

Implementation of Key Components of Evidence-Based Family Therapy for Eating Disorders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Care.

Background: Restrictive eating disorders with pronounced starvation are serious psychiatric conditions that often begin during childhood or adolescence. An early and efficient intervention is crucial to minimize the risk of the illness becoming longstanding and to limit the consequences. There is good evidence that weight gain during the first month of treatment provides a better prognosis.

Long-term follow-up study of low-weight avoidant restrictive food intake disorder compared with childhood-onset anorexia nervosa: Psychiatric and occupational outcome in 56 patients.

Objective: To compare long term outcome between childhood-onset Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and low-weight Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in regard to psychiatric diagnoses, social and occupational functioning.

Method: A consecutive series of 56 children originally treated for low-weight restrictive eating disorder (ED) were followed up after a mean of 15.9 years.

Disordered eating in a Swedish community sample of adolescent girls: subgroups, stability, and associations with body esteem, deliberate self-harm and other difficulties.

Background: The developmental study of subtypes of disordered eating (DE) during adolescence may be relevant to understand the development of eating disorders. The purpose of the present study was to identify subgroups with different profiles of DE in a community sample of adolescent girls aged 13-15 years, and to study the stability of these profiles and subgroups over a one-year interval in order to find patterns that may need to be addressed in further research and prevention.

Methods: Cluster analysis according to the LICUR procedure was performed on five aspects of DE, and the structural and individual stability of these clusters was analysed.

[Early weight gain in anorexia nervosa is associated with a favourable prognosis].

In adolescent anorexia nervosa starvation with long-standing low weight worsens prognosis. Rapid weight gain at the start of treatment is associated with a favourable medical and psychological outcome. There is an increasing evidence base for family based treatment as the most efficacious treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

Childhood Anorexia Nervosa Compared with Low Weight Food Intake Disorder Without Weight and Shape-Related Psychopathology: A Retrospective Study of 102 Patients.

Objective: To compare the clinical presentation of children with anorexia nervosa (AN group) with that of children with low-weight food intake disorder without weight and shape-related psychopathology (non-AN group).

Method: Medical and psychiatric data were obtained from the case records of a consecutive series of 102 children with an eating disorder and a pronounced low weight who were below the age of 13 at the start of treatment.

Results: Fifty-eight patients constituted the AN group, and 44 constituted the non-AN group.

[Eating disorder and the family--a review].

The importance of the family in eating disorders has been the subject of a great deal of speculation ever since anorexia nervosa was first described some 130 years ago. Given the importance of the family in child and adolescent development, it also has great bearing on how young people learn to deal with food. But the research is inconclusive as to the family's precise role in the development of an eating disorder.

Anorexia nervosa in teenagers: change in family function after family therapy, at 2-year follow-up.

Family therapy has emerged as the treatment of choice for young patients with anorexia nervosa, yet there is insufficient knowledge about what actually happens within the family unit in these cases. The purpose of the present study was to investigate how a family undergoing treatment due to an anorectic child changes their mode of functioning. Twenty-six families were studied.