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Six-Year course and outcome of anorexia nervosa

Manfred Maximilian Fichter · Norbert Quadflieg

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Eating Disorders and Behaviors Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

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OBJECTIVE: Since there are discrepant findings in the literature, we studied the longer-term course in a large sample of 103 DSM-IV anorexia nervosa (AN) patients. METHOD: Assessments were made at four points of time: beginning of therapy, end of therapy, 2-year follow-up, and 6-year follow-up. Self-rating scales as well as expert-rating interview data were used. Eating disorder-specific and general psychopathology were assessed. These data were also compared with data on the 6-year course of patients with bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder, respectively, who were treated at the same institution at about the same time. RESULTS: The participation rate at the two follow-ups was high (97.9% of those alive). The general pattern of results over time of those alive at 6-year follow-up was as follows: substantial improvement during therapy, moderate (in many instances nonsignificant) decline during the first 2 years posttreatment, and further improvement from 3 to 6 years posttreatment. At the time of the 6-year follow-up, 26.8% had AN, 9. 9% had bulimia nervosa-purging type (BN-P), 2.0% were classified as eating disorder not otherwise specified (ED-NOS), all diagnosed according to DSM-IV criteria; more than one half (55.4%) showed no major DSM-IV eating disorder. Based on an operationalized global outcome score at 6-year follow-up, 34.7% had a good outcome, 38.6% an intermediate outcome, 20.8% a poor outcome, and 6 of 101 persons (5.9%) were deceased. Body mass index was 17.9 +/- 2.8 at the 6-year follow-up; amenorrhea was still found in 23.9%. DISCUSSION: In comparison to samples with bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder, the 6-year course of anorexia nervosa was less favorable. Mortality was rather high and symptomatic recovery protracted; predictors of unfavorable 6-year course were the presence of binges during 4 weeks before index treatment, psychiatric comorbidity, and low body weight at discharge from index treatment.

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