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A Computer-Based Platform for Aiding Clinicians in Eating Disorder Analysis and Diagnosis
Published on: May 10, 2022
[Online-consulting for eating disorders--analysis of users and contents]
Martin Grunwald1, Dorette Wesemann
1Universität Leipzig, Klinik für Psychiatrie. mgrun@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Objective:
Since 1998, the online information and consulting server for patients with eating disorders and their relatives (www.ab-server.de) offers an online consulting service.
Methods:
2176 e-mails were qualitatively and quantitatively analysed.
Results:
The symptom descriptions refer mostly to bulimia nervosa (63.1%). People mainly asked for behaviour patterns in dealing with the illness or with an affected person (33.3%) as well as for information about the illness (18.7%).
Conclusions:
The low threshold and professional online consulting service is highly accepted by the target group.
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