PMID- 15490277
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050128
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1018-8827 (Print)
IS  - 1018-8827 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 5
DP  - 2004 Oct
TI  - Good outcome of adolescent onset anorexia nervosa after systematic treatment. 
      Intermediate to long-term follow-up of a representative county-sample.
PG  - 295-306
AB  - We studied the intermediate to long-term outcome of childhood and adolescent 
      onset anorexia nervosa (AN), in a sample that had received systematic treatment 
      based on close cooperation between parents, paediatric department and child and 
      adolescent psychiatry. Of 55 female AN-patients, 51 were examined 3.5-14.5 years 
      after treatment start. The material includes all AN-patients under 18 years in 
      one county that received inpatient treatment and almost all that received 
      outpatient treatment, during the time period 1986-1998. Forty-two (82%) subjects 
      had no eating disorder (ED) at follow-up, one (2%) had AN, one (2%) bulimia 
      nervosa (BN) and seven (14%) had less severe ED (EDNOS). Except the one with BN, 
      none had bulimic symptoms. There was no mortality. Twenty (41%) had one or more 
      other axis-1 psychiatric diagnoses at follow-up. Depression and anxiety disorders 
      were most frequent. Psychosocial functioning assessed by Global Assessment of 
      Functioning (GAF) was fairly good; mean 73+/-SD14 for symptoms and mean 77+/-SD13 
      for functioning. Only 48% were satisfied with life, compared to 83% in a normal 
      population sample. Our conclusion is that the eating disorder outcome was good. 
      However, in accordance with other studies, many subjects had other psychiatric 
      problems at follow-up.
FAU - Halvorsen, Inger
AU  - Halvorsen I
AD  - Dept. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Buskerud Hospital, 3004 Drammen, 
      Norway. inger.halvorsen@r-bup.no
FAU - Andersen, Anne
AU  - Andersen A
FAU - Heyerdahl, Sonja
AU  - Heyerdahl S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Germany
TA  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
JT  - European child & adolescent psychiatry
JID - 9212296
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Age of Onset
MH  - Anorexia Nervosa/*psychology/*therapy
MH  - Anxiety Disorders
MH  - Depressive Disorder
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Social Behavior
MH  - Treatment Outcome
EDAT- 2004/10/19 09:00
MHDA- 2005/01/29 09:00
CRDT- 2004/10/19 09:00
PHST- 2004/05/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/10/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/01/29 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/10/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00787-004-0408-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004 Oct;13(5):295-306. doi: 
      10.1007/s00787-004-0408-9.