Clinical profile of eating disorder patients attended in a mental health service

Abstract

In this study we present results obtained from the analyses of 33 variables, grouped in: demographic, familiar antecedents, personal antecedents, disorder history, DSM-IV diagnostic and treatment, as well as the results obtained using different psicometric scales (BDI, HARS; EAT-40, BITE and BSQ) in a group of pacients with eating desorders that where attended from October 2001 to October 2002 in our Hospital. Epidemic and clinic profiles are described. We find our pacients are single young women, good performance students, mid class, their parents are married, and there is usually associated patology in other family member. With a long-term disorder evolution, and other psychiatry patology associated, they are treated in the Mental Health service or hospitalized in the
Endocrinology service.