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Anorexia Nervosa - Prevention & control
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Definition of 'Anorexia Nervosa'An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994) Common names: Anorexia Nervosa; Anorexia Nervosas; Nervosa, Anorexia; Nervosas, Anorexia |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
An integrative quantitative model of factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa over time.
29 Apr 2009 
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa (AN) over time. METHOD: Former female patients with AN (36 remitted and 24 nonremitted) and 31 healthy females responded to standardized interviews and self-rating ... Read more...
30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare two maintenance treatment conditions for weight-restored anorexia nervosa (AN): individual cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and maintenance treatment as usual (MTAU). METHOD: This study was a ... Read more...
30 Dec 2008 This article reviews eating disorder (ED) prevention programs, highlighting features that define successful programs and particularly promising interventions, and how they might be further refined. The field of ED prevention has advanced ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Anorexia Nervosa - Prevention & control'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- An integrative quantitative model of factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa over time. 29 Apr 2009
- Maintenance treatment for anorexia nervosa: a comparison of cognitive behavior therapy and treatment as usual. 30 Mar 2009
- Preventing eating disorders. 30 Dec 2008
- [Anorexia athletica's place in female sports athletes] 18 Dec 2008
- General and program-specific moderators of two eating disorder prevention programs. 30 Oct 2008
- But what if ...
30 Aug 2008 - A high-fat diet prevents and reverses the development of activity-based anorexia in rats. 29 Jun 2008
- Primary prevention of eating disorders: characteristics of effective programmes and how to bring them to broader dissemination. 29 Apr 2008
- Readiness to change mediates the impact of eating disorder symptomatology on treatment outcome in anorexia nervosa. 29 Apr 2008
- Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: long-term effects from a randomized efficacy trial.
30 Mar 2008 - A qualitative exploration of relationship and attachment themes in families with an eating disorder. 30 Mar 2008
- Understanding how parents cope with living with someone with anorexia nervosa: modelling the factors that are associated with carer distress. 30 Mar 2008
- [Eating disorders in childhood and early adolescence] 29 Jan 2008
- [Barbie goes PriMa: formative evaluation of a school-based program for the primary prevention of anorexia nervosa developed for girls up to the age of 12] 30 Dec 2007
- Support for parents of children with anorexia: what parents want. 30 Dec 2007
- A randomized trial on the efficacy of a 2-month tube feeding regimen in anorexia nervosa: A 1-year follow-up study. 15 May 2007
- Eating disorders in the oral health curriculum. 29 Apr 2007
- Eating disorders across two cultures: does the expression of psychological control vary? 30 Mar 2007
- Intended and unintended effects of an eating disorder educational program: impact of presenter identity. 27 Feb 2007
- Maintenance of internet-based prevention: a randomized controlled trial. 27 Feb 2007
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Technical information about 'Anorexia Nervosa'
Definition: An eating disorder that is characterized by the lack or loss of APPETITE, known as ANOREXIA. Other features include excess fear of becoming OVERWEIGHT; BODY IMAGE disturbance; significant WEIGHT LOSS; refusal to maintain minimal normal weight; and AMENORRHEA. This disorder occurs most frequently in adolescent females. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)
Descriptor UI: D000856
Alternative terms: Anorexia Nervosa; Anorexia Nervosas; Nervosa, Anorexia; Nervosas, Anorexia;
Related Mesh Headings: Anorexia;
Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;
Tree Number: F03.375.100;
Technical Notes: ANOREXIA is also available