The Role of Weight Suppression in Intensive Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: A Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT: The study aimed to establish the role of weight suppression in a cohort of adolescents with anorexia nervosa treated with intensive enhanced cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT-E). One hundred and twenty-eight adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa (128 females and 2 males), aged between 14 and 19 years, were recruited from consecutive referrals to a community-based eating disorder clinic offering intensive CBT-E. Weight, height, Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, and Brief Symptom Inventory scores were recorded at admission, end-of-treatment, and at a 20-week follow-up. In addition, the developmental weight suppression (DWS, difference between one's highest premorbid and current z-BMI, i.e., BMI z-scores) was calculated. The mean baseline z-BMI was -4.01 (SD = 2.27), and the mean

SUBMITTER: Calugi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9967636 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature