Outcome of Polish teenage patients with eating disorders
 
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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
 
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Laboratory of Systemic Psychology and Psychotherapy, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum
 
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Clinical Ward of Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital in Krakow
 
 
Submission date: 2014-07-08
 
 
Acceptance date: 2014-07-29
 
 
Publication date: 2014-09-19
 
 
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Maciej Pilecki   

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Street, Code City, Poland
 
 
Arch Psych Psych 2014;16(3):43-52
 
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Aim of the study:
The aim of the study was to assess outcome of patients with eating disorders in the Polish socio-cultural context.

Subject or material and methods:
Re-assessed after 6.72 years (SD 0.99 years, min 4.58 years, max 8.81 years) 47 of 112 patients consulted initially in the outpatient clinic of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit between 2002/2004 in Krakow, Poland with one of the eating disorders.

Results:
Complete remission (absence of symptoms for three months) took place in 55% of patients from the restrictive anorexia nervosa group, 27.3% patients from the bulimia nervosa group. A full range of symptoms was observed in 10% of patients from the restrictive anorexia nervosa group and 36.4% of patients from the bulimia nervosa group. In both groups, the longer the follow-up study, the worse outcome was observed.

Discussion:
Small size of group in the follow-up study caused a significant limitation.

Conclusions:
Conclusion: The remission rates indices for restrictive anorexia nervosa are similar to these presented in other follow-up studies. In the case of bulimia nervosa they are lower than average. An analysis of diagnosis variability between the initial and the follow up assessment indicates low cross-over rate from anorexia nervosa to bulimia nervosa group.

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