Dysmorphophobia as a factor that worsens the affective state and the life quality of patients with eating disorders. The final data of the study

Autor: E. Okonishnikova, A. Bryukhin, T. Lineva, I. Belokrylov
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: European Psychiatry, Vol 64, Pp S356-S356 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0924-9338
1778-3585
DOI: 10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.954
Popis: Introduction Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) take one of the first places in the risk of fatal outcome among eating disorders, have a tendency to chronicity and high suicidal risk. Psychopathological basis for AN and BN is a dysmorfofobia or a pathological dissatisfaction with one’s body, characterized by intrusive, overvalued or delusional ideas of physical disability. Dysmorfofobia affects the formation of affective pathology and reduces the life quality. Objectives The study of the correlation between the degree of dissatisfaction with one’s bodies, affective disorders and life quality of patients with AN and BN. Methods 130 female patients with AN and BN at the age of 13-44 years (the average age is 18). The disease duration from 6 months to 24 years. Validated Questionnaire image of one’s own body (QIOB) and the Scale of satisfaction with one’s body (SSOB); Hospital anxiety and depression scale (Zigmond A.); Questionnaire for the assessment of life quality (SF-36); Microsoft Excel standard correlation calculation. Results Dissatisfaction with one’s body based on QIOB and SSOB tests has a significant positive correlation with anxiety and depression, a significant correlation with the psychological component of health, a weak correlation with the physical component of health. Conclusions Dissatisfaction with one’s body or dysmorfofobia of patients with AN and BN significantly affects their affective state and psychological component of life quality which leads to a decrease in functioning up to social maladaptation and disability to social maladjustment. The publication was prepared with the support of the “RUDN University Program 5-100”.
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