Perceptive Body Image Distortion in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: Changes After Treatment.

ABSTRACT: One key symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN) is body image distortion (BID). For example, AN patients who are asked to perform body size estimation tasks tend to overestimate their body size; this is thought to indicate a distortion of the perceptive component of body image. Although BID is an important treatment objective, only few treatment approaches explicitly target body image, and even fewer target the perceptive component. Moreover, very little is known about how patients' perceptive body image changes after treatment and related weight gain. Consequently, we investigated changes of the perceptive BID in adolescent AN patients at the beginning (T1) and the end (T2) of inpatient treatment using a body size estimation task. A total of 38 AN patients performed the test for Body Image Disto

SUBMITTER: Dalhoff AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6803517 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature