Using network analysis to personalize treatment for individuals with co-occurring restrictive eating disorders and suicidality: a proof-of-concept study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nomothetic (i.e., on average) eating disorder interventions generally provide insufficient guidance for managing suicidality. The present proof-of-concept study demonstrates how idiographic network models can be used to inform a modular, highly personalized approach to treatment for individuals experiencing suicidality in the context of Anorexia Nervosa spectrum disorders (ANSD).

Methods

Using 21 days of ecological momentary assessment data (105 assessment points), contemporaneous and temporal idiographic symptom networks were generated for three patients with unique clinical presentations of ANSD. For each patient, we identify the most central symptoms in their network, as well as potentially important bridge symptoms linking eating pathology and suicidality. We

SUBMITTER: Harris LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306141 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature