Factors that affect treatment and dropout from eating disorder treatment in specialist health care
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Eating disorders often involve a lot of ambivalence and anxiety related to undergoing treatment. It is one of the mental disorders that has the highest dropout from treatment and where many go untreated for a long time. The purpose of this study is to produce knowledge that can help us understand more about dropout from treatment for eating disorders and to help develop the treatment offered so that more people with eating disorders get good help. The study (REK number: 55304) consists of several parts, in order to explore the perspective of the key stakeholders in the treatment of eating disorders - patients, therapists and general practitioners. Focus group interviews will be conducted with therapists and general practitioners, individual interviews with people who have chosen to end treatment for eating disorder before it was completed. Patients and general practitioners will also be invited to fill out an anonymous survey. Data from the regional register for treatment of eating disorders will also be analyzed to see which factors predict dropout from treatment, such as comorbidity, duration of eating disorder, severity of illness and network.
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