Towards collaborative care for severe and enduring Anorexia Nervosa - a mixed-method approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (SEED), in particular SEED-Anorexia Nervosa (SE-AN), may represent the most difficult disorder to treat in psychiatry. Furthermore, the lack of empirical research in this patient group, and, consequently the lack of guidelines, call for an urgent increase in research and discussion within this field. Meanwhile experts concur that effective care should be structured in a collaborative manner.

Objective

To identify the challenges in providing care to patients with SE-AN in the Dutch healthcare context, and propose a collaborative care treatment model to address these issues.

Methods

A pragmatic mixed-method approach was used, structured as follows: (1) Identifying perceived barriers and treatment needs from the viewpoint o

SUBMITTER: van den Eijnde-Damen IMC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346167 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature