Subjective motives for requesting in-patient treatment in female with anorexia nervosa: a qualitative study.
| Autor: | Pauline Gorse, Clementine Nordon, Frederic Rouillon, Alexandra Pham-Scottez, Anne Revah-Levy |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 10, p e77757 (2013) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 14144794 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0077757 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder mainly affecting women. Its treatment is long and accepted with much difficulty, in particular in-patient treatment. AIMS: To describe the subjective motives of women with anorexia nervosa for requesting in-patient admission, from a qualitative analysis of application letters. METHODS: Participants were adult women (18 years and older) with anorexia nervosa who were admitted as in-patients in a referral hospital unit in France from January 2008 to December 2010. The application letters, prerequisites to admission, were studied by the interpretative phenomenological method of content analysis. RESULTS: 63 letters have been analysed, allowing the identification of six themes related to requests for in-patient care: loss of control of behaviour, and of thoughts, mental exhaustion, isolation, inner struggle and fear of recovery. CONCLUSIONS: Requests for in-patient admission were motivated by very personal, subjective experiences, unrelated to medical reasons for admission. These results may help improve pre-admission motivational work with individuals, by basing it on their subjective experience. |
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