Increased urge for movement, physical and mental restlessness, fundamental symptoms of restricting anorexia nervosa?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Continued mobility in the presence of severe weight loss is a well known, yet insufficiently researched characteristic of anorexia nervosa (AN). This study was designed to assess the prevalence of the drive for activity, here operationalized as an increased urge for movement, physical restlessness, and mental restlessness.

Method

Participants were 83 female consecutively admitted adolescent patients qualifying for a diagnosis of AN (ICD-10), restricting subtype. Information collected included responses to a questionnaire inquiring retrospectively about physical and psychological reactions after significant weight loss (on average 12.5 kg) and to measures of psychiatric and eating disorder pathology and exercise behaviors at hospital admission.

Results

Over 8

SUBMITTER: Casper RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066368 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature