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Is weight gain really a catalyst for broader recovery?: The impact of weight gain on psychological symptoms in the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa

Overview of attention for article published in Behaviour Research & Therapy, February 2014
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Title
Is weight gain really a catalyst for broader recovery?: The impact of weight gain on psychological symptoms in the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa
Published in
Behaviour Research & Therapy, February 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.brat.2014.02.006
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Erin C. Accurso, Anna C. Ciao, Ellen E. Fitzsimmons-Craft, James D. Lock, Daniel Le Grange

Abstract

The main aims of this study were to describe change in psychological outcomes for adolescents with anorexia nervosa across two treatments, and to explore predictors of change, including baseline demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as weight gain over time. Participants were 121 adolescents with anorexia nervosa from a two-site (Chicago and Stanford) randomized controlled trial who received either family-based treatment or individual adolescent supportive psychotherapy. Psychological symptoms (i.e., eating disorder psychopathology, depressive symptoms, and self-esteem) were assessed at baseline, end of treatment, 6-month, and 12-month follow-up. Conditional multilevel growth models were used to test for predictors of slope for each outcome. Most psychological symptoms improved significantly from baseline to 12 month follow-up, regardless of treatment type. Depressive symptoms and dietary restraint were most improved, weight and shape concerns were least improved, and self-esteem was not at all improved. Weight gain emerged as a significant predictor of improved eating disorder pathology, with earlier weight gain having a greater impact on symptom improvement than later weight gain. Adolescents who presented with more severe, complex, and enduring clinical presentations (i.e., longer duration of illness, greater eating disorder pathology, binge-eating/purging subtype) also appeared to benefit more psychologically from treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 240 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 17%
Student > Bachelor 30 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 9%
Researcher 18 7%
Other 48 20%
Unknown 60 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 68 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 46 19%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 9%
Social Sciences 10 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 3%
Other 19 8%
Unknown 72 30%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2020.
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#3,048,688
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#29,701
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Outputs of similar age from Behaviour Research & Therapy
#8
of 26 outputs
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