Eating disorder in women admitted to hospital following deliberate self-poisoning

Author(s): Goddard, K. L., vandenBerk, P. A. H., Raphael, F. J., McCluskey, S. E., Lacey, J. H.

Journal/Book: Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1997; 95: 35 Norre Sogade, PO Box 2148, DK-1016 Copenhagen, Denmark. Munksgaard Int Publ Ltd. 140-144.

Abstract: Measures of abnormal eating behaviour in 48 women referred for psychiatric assessment following an act of deliberate self-poisoning (subjects) were compared with those in 50 women attending an accident and emergency department following minor accidental injury (controls). Disordered eating behaviour was significantly more prevalent in the subject group, even when the effect of depression was removed. Four subjects fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for bulimia nervosa, but none of the subjects met the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa. The prevalence of obesity was the same in both subject and control groups. The degree of abnormal eating was very strongly correlated with a measure of inwardly directed irritability in both subjects and controls, and was strongly associated with measures of impulsiveness, outwardly directed irritability and anxiety in subjects.

Note: Article Kent A, St George Hosp, Sch Med, Dept Mental Hlth Sci, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, ENGLAND

Keyword(s): eating disorder; deliberate self-poisoning; attempted suicide; personality disorder; ANOREXIA-NERVOSA; BULIMIA-NERVOSA; SYMPTOMS; SCALE

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