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- Title
Clinician and patient characteristics and cognitions that influence weighing practice in cognitive‐behavioral therapy for eating disorders.
- Authors
Daglish, Amy; Waller, Glenn
- Abstract
Objective: Clinicians commonly fail to weigh patients appropriately in cognitive‐behavioral therapy for eating disorders (CBT‐ED), despite guidelines stressing the need to do so. This study considered the possible patient‐ and clinician‐based reasons why this element of treatment is omitted. Method: Seventy‐four CBT‐ED clinicians were presented with vignettes that varied in patient diagnosis and distress levels, to determine whether those characteristics influenced different clinician weighing practices. Clinicians' own attitudes to weighing and their anxiety levels were also assessed to determine whether they were related to weighing intentions. Results: Clinicians were more likely to weigh patients with anorexia nervosa than patients with bulimia nervosa, probably due to focusing on physical risk. However, they were less likely to weigh patients who were distressed at the prospect, despite that course of action being particularly clinically indicated. Clinicians were more likely to weigh patients if they had positive beliefs about the value of doing so, and if they were not prone to making unsupported exceptions in delivering this technique. Discussion: This study provides evidence that clinicians use weighing differently according to the patient's presentation and their own beliefs, rather than working within guidelines. Education, training, and supervision are suggested to help clinicians address this failure to weigh patients in the most therapeutic way.
- Subjects
ANOREXIA nervosa treatment; ANXIETY diagnosis; BULIMIA diagnosis; BULIMIA treatment; DIAGNOSIS of eating disorders; TREATMENT of eating disorders; ANOREXIA nervosa; BODY weight; COGNITIVE therapy; CASE studies; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; DECISION making in clinical medicine; PATIENTS' attitudes; PHYSICIANS' attitudes
- Publication
International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2019, Vol 52, Issue 9, p977
- ISSN
0276-3478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/eat.23096