Anorexia nervosa's meaning to patients: A qualitative synthesis

Psychopathology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 69-80

  Espíndola, Cybele Ribeiro ^a,b   Blay, Sergio Luís ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anorexia nervosa; Anorexia nervosa, metasynthesis; Anorexia nervosa, systematic review

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 60449095187     PISSN: 02544962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000203339     Document Type: Review

References (64)

1. Dixon-Woods M, Fitzpatrick R, Roberts K: Including qualitative research in systematic reviews: opportunities and problems. J Eval Clin Pract 2001;7:125-133.
2. Paterson B, Thorne S, Canam C, Jillings C: Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research. London, Sage, 2001.
3. * Surgenor LJ, Plumridge EW, Horn J: 'Knowing one's self' anorexic: implications for therapeutic practice. Int J Eat Disord 2003;33:22-32.
4. * Chan Z, Ma J: Family themes of food refusal: disciplining the body and punishing the family. Health Care Women Int 2002;23:49-58.
5. * Hardin PK: Shape-shifting discourses of anorexia nervosa: reconstituting psychopathology. Nurs Inq 2003;10:209-217.
6. * Woods S: Untreated recovery from eating disorders. Adolescence 2004;39:361-371.
7. * Keski-Rahkonen A, Tozzi F: The process of recovery in eating disorder sufferers' own words: an Internet-based study. Int J Eat Disord 2005;37:S80-S86.
8. * Guzman MV, Yanssens AMM, Cruz MP: Anorexia nerviosa: estúdio clinico-fenomenologico de siete casos. Rev Psiq Clin 1994;21:25-34.
9. * Lamoureaux M, Bottorff J: Becoming the real me: recovering from anorexia nervosa. Health Care Women Int 2005;26:170-188.
10. * Colton A, Pistrang N: Adolescents' experiences of inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa. Eur Eat Disord Rev 2004;12:307-316.
11. * Chan Z, Ma J: Anorexic body: a qualitative study [43 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research [online journal] 2003;4(1). Available at: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte.
12. Bruch H: Eating Disorder: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within. New York, Basic Books, 1973.
13. Bruch H: The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1978.
14. Bruch H: Psychotherapy in anorexia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord 1982;1:3-14.
15. Bruch H: The changing picture of an illness: anorexia nervosa; in Attachment an the Therapeutic Process. Madison, International Universities Press, 1987.
16. Boris HN: The problem of anorexia nervosa. Int J Psychoanal 1984;65:315-322.
17. Skårderud F: Eating one's words. I. 'Concretised metaphors' and reflective function in anorexia nervosa - an interview study. Eur Eat Disord Rev 2007;15:163-174.
18. Farber SK, Jackson CC, Tabin JK, Bachar E: Death and annihilation anxieties in anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and self-mutilation. Psychoanal Psychol 2007;24:289-305.
19. Kleinfeld EI, Wagner S, Halmi KA: Cognitive-behavioral treatment of anorexia nervosa. Psychiatr Clin North Am 1996;19:715-737.
20. Hay P, Bacaltchuk J, Claudino A, Ben-Tovim D, Yong PY: Individual psychotherapy in the outpatient treatment of adults with anorexia nervosa. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003;CD003909.
21. Wilson GT: Psychological treatment of eating disorders. Annu Rev Clin Psychol 2005;1:439-465.
22. Claudino AM, Hay P, Lima MS, Bacaltchuk J, Schmidt U, Treasure J: Antidepressants for anorexia nervosa. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006;CD004365.
23. Gabbard GO: Transtornos relacionados a substância e transtornos da alimentação; in Gabbard GO (ed): Psiquiatria Psicodinâmica na Prática Clínica, ed 4, Porto Alegre, Artmed, 2006.
24. Westen D, Harnden-Fischer J: Personality profiles in eating disorders: rethinking the distinction between axis I and axis II. Am J Psychiatry 2001;158:547-562.
25. Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): Making Sense of Evidence. London, CASP, 2002.
26. Britten N, Campbell R, Pope C, Donovan J, Morgan M, Pill R: Using meta-ethnography to synthesis e qualitative research: a worked example. J Health Serv Res Policy 2002;7:209-215.
27. Nelson A: A metasynthesis: mothering other-than-normal children. Qual Health Res 2002;12:515-530.
28. Campbell R, Pound P, Pope C, Britten N, Pill R, Morgan M: Evaluating meta-ethnography: a synthesis of qualitative research on lay experiences of diabetes and diabetes care. Soc Sci Med 2003;56:671-684.
29. Sandelowski M, Barroso J: Towards a metasynthesis of qualitative findings on motherhood in HIV-positive women. Res Nurs Health 2003;26:153-170.
30. Noblit GW, Hare RD: Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. Newbury Park, Sage, 1988.
31. * Hsu LK, Crisp AH, Callender JS: Recovery in anorexia nervosa - the patient's perspective. Int J Eat Disord 1992;11:341-350.
32. * Serpell L, Treasure J, Teasdale J: Anorexia nervosa: friend or foe? Int J Eat Disord 1999;25:177-186.
33. * Thomsen SR, McCoy JK, Williams M: Internalizing the impossible: anorexic outpatients' experiences with women's beauty and fashion magazines. Eat Dis 2001;9:49-64.
34. * Tozzi F, Sullivan PF, Fear JL: Causes and recovery in anorexia nervosa: the patient's perspective. Int J Eat Disord 2003;33:143-154.
35. * Tan J, Hope RA, Stewart A: Anorexia nervosa and personal identity: the accounts of patients and their parents. Int J Law Psychiatry 2003;26:533-548.
36. * Tan J, Hope RA, Stewart A, Fitzpatrick R: Control and compulsory treatment in anorexia nervosa: the views of patients and parents. Int J Law Psychiatry 2003;26:627-645.
37. * Tan J, Hope RA, Stewart A: Competence to refuse treatment in anorexia nervosa. Int J Law Psychiatry 2003;26:697-707.
38. * Williams MS, Thomsen SR, McCoy JK: Looking for an accurate mirror: a model for the relationship between media use and anorexia. Eat Behav 2003;4:127-134.
39. * Bachner-Melman R: Siblings in the context of anorexia nervosa. Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 2005;42:178-184.
40. * Weaver K, Wuest J, Ciliska D: Understanding women's journey of recovering from anorexia nervosa. Qual Health Res 2005;15:188-206.
41. * Nevonen L, Broberg AG: The emergence of eating disorders: an exploratory study. Eur Eat Disord Rev 2000;8:279-292.
42. * Drummond MJN: Men, body, image and eating disorders. Int J Men's Health 2002;1:79-93.
43. * Etxeberria Y, González N, Padierna JA: Calidad de vida en pacientes con transtornos de alimentación. Psicothema 2002;14:399-404.
44. * Redenbach J, Lawler J: Recovery from disordered eating: what life histories reveal. Contemp Nurse 2003;15:148-156.
45. * D'Abundo M, Chally P: Struggling with recovery: participant perspectives on battling an eating disorder. Qual Health Res 2004;14:1094-1106.
46. Sánchez AV, Escribano EA: Medição do Autoconceito, Bauru, Edusc, 1999.
47. Santos PCM, Júnior NY, Pessa RP, Santos JE: Anorexia nervosa e bulimia: aspectos psicopatológicos, demográficos, diagnósticos e clínicos. Rev Assoc Bras Psiq 1998;10:34-41.
48. Godart NT, Perdereau F, Rein Z, Berthoz S, Wallier J, Jeammet P: Comorbidity studies of eating disorders and mood disorders. Critical review of the literature. J Affect Disord 2007;97:37-49.
49. Williams G: Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies. Duckworth, Tavistock Clinic Series, 1997.
50. Thompson-Brenner H, Eddy KT, Satir AD, Boisseau CL, Westen D: Personality subtypes in adolescents with eating disorders: validation of a classification approach. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2008;49:170-180.
51. Sansone RA, Levitt JL, Sansone LA: The prevalence of personality disorders among those with eating disorders. Eat Disord 2005;13:7-21.
52. Goldner EM, Srikameswaran S, Schroeder ML, Livesley WJ, Birmingham CL: Dimensional assessment of personality pathology in patients with eating disorders. Psychiatry Res 1999;85:151-159.
53. Halmi KA, Sunday SR, Klump KL, et al: Obsessions and compulsions in anorexia nervosa subtypes. Int J Eat Disord 2003;33:308-319.
54. Westen D, Thompson-Brenner H, Peart J: Personality and eating disorders; in Wonderlich S, Mitchell JE, de Zwaan M, Steiger H (eds): Annual Review of Eating Disorders, Part 2. Oxford, Radcliffe, 2006, pp 97-110.
55. Casper RC, Troiani M: Family functioning in anorexia nervosa differs by subtype. Int J Eat Disord 2001;30:338-342.
56. Wade TD, Bulik CM, Neale M, Kendler KS: Anorexia nervosa and major depression: shared genetic and environmental risk factors. Am J Psychiatry 2000;157:469-471.
57. Díaz-Marsá M, Carrasco JL, Sáiz J: A study of temperament and personality in anorexia and bulimia nervosa. J Personal Disord 2000;14:352-359.
58. Cordás TA, Neves JEP: Escalas de avaliação de transtornos alimentares. Rev Psiquiatr Clín 1999;26:41-47.
59. Arman M, Rehnsfeld T: The hidden suffering among breast cancer patients: a qualitative metasynthesis. Qual Health Res 2003;13:510-527.
60. Taylor EJ: Transformation of tragedy among women surviving breast cancer. Oncol Nurs Forum 2000;27:781-788.
61. Jiménez-Murcia S, Fernández-Aranda F, Raich RM, Alonso P, Krug I, Jaurrieta N, Alvarez-Moya E, Labad J, Menchón JM, Vallejo J: Obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders: comparison of clinical and personality features. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2007;61:385-391.
62. Gothelf D, Apter A, Ratzoni G, Orbach I, Weizman R, Tyano S, Pfeffer C: Defense mechanisms in severe adolescent anorexia nervosa. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1995;34:1648-1654.
63. Dare C: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy; in Treatments of Psychiatry Disorders, ed 2. Washington, American Psychiatric Press, 1995.
64. Vitousek KM, Gray JA: Psychotherapy of eating disorders; in Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.