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Short-term and intermediate-term outcome in adolescent eating disorders
1Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
Within a prospective longitudinal outcome study of the eating disorders with onset during adolescence, 26 former patients were reassessed at short-term (19-38 months) and intermediate-term (48-72 months) follow-up periods. It was shown that the outcome was worse at short-term follow-up. In addition, the changes of diagnostic categories within the spectrum of the eating disorders were studied. It is concluded that outcome studies require repeated assessments to study the various patterns of course of the eating disorders.