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The Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Recently Admitted Psychiatric In-patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Phillipa J. Hay  and
Anne Hall
Phillipa J. Hay*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine
Anne Hall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand
*
∗Dr Phillipa Hay, Neuropsychiatric Unit, Prince Henry Hospital, PO Box 233, Matraville, 2036, NSW, Australia
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Abstract

Of 107 recently admitted psychiatric patients screened for eating-disorder symptoms by questionnaire, 17% met DSM–III–R criteria for eating disorders. Eight patients (one male) had bulimia nervosa. Ten patients had eating disorder not otherwise specified: seven (three male) bulimic type, and three (one male) anorexia nervosa type. The most common concurrent diagnoses were mood and personality disorders. As eating-disorder symptoms are relevant to the diagnosis and management of other psychiatric disorders they should be assessed routinely in all psychiatric patients.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 159 , Issue 4 , October 1991 , pp. 562 - 565
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Copyright © 1991 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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