当照顾者受到影响时:精神卫生专业人员之间的饮食障碍症状
Karin Strand1, Harald Aiff2,3
1Region Halland, Psychiatry Halmstad, Halmstad, Sweden.
Nordic journal of psychiatry
|September 13, 2025
概括
与普通人群相比,精神卫生保健提供者患饮食障碍 (ED) 的一生患病率明显高. 在ED和非ED诊所观察到这种增加的患病率,这表明潜在的职业风险.
科学领域:
- 精神病学是一个精神病学.
- 心理健康 心理健康
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 饮食障碍 (ED) 是普遍存在的心理健康状况.
- 以前的研究表明,在ED诊所工作的专业人员中,ED的潜在过度代表性.
- 在非ED特定领域的精神卫生保健提供者中,ED的流行程度不太清楚.
研究的目的:
- 在瑞典的精神卫生保健提供者中确定饮食障碍 (ED) 的终身和点患病率.
- 将与ED患者工作的专业人员的ED患病率与其他精神病学领域的专业人员进行比较.
- 调查ED过度代表性是否超出了专门的ED诊所.
主要方法:
- 在瑞典的精神病室门诊专业人员中进行了一项数字问卷研究.
- 调查问卷包括验证的工具:迷你国际神经精神病学面试 (MINI) 7.0.1和饮食障碍检查问卷 (EDE-Q) 6.0.
- 173名专业人士完成了调查.
主要成果:
- 在ED诊所,ED的终身患病率为35.2% (女性为41.9%,男性为10.0%) 和非ED诊所的患病率为24.4% (女性为27.7%,男性为16.1%).
- 在ED诊所的点患病率为11.1%,非ED诊所的点患病率为10.9%.
- 这代表了与瑞典普通人口 (2-3.5%) 相比,一生中患病率高出约10倍.
结论:
- 精神卫生保健提供者显示ED的终身患病率比一般人群高得多.
- 这种高患病率存在,不管专业人员是在ED专注或一般精神病学环境中工作.
- 潜在的解释包括影响同情心的个人经验或与治疗ED患者相关的职业风险;报告偏见是一个考虑因素.
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