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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Everyday memory and related processes in patients with eating disorders
AU - Seed, Julie
AU - Dahabra, S
AU - Heffernan, T
AU - Robertson, Bernadette
AU - Foster, K
AU - Venn, H
AU - Froom, K
AU - Williams, T
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - ObjectivesTo investigate everyday memory and related processes in patients with eating disorders and to consider how problems with these processes may impact upon their psychosocial functioning and ability to engage in cognitively demanding aspects of treatment programmes.DesignTwo case-control studies.SettingRegional Eating Disorders Service in the North East of England.ParticipantsPatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) [DSM-IV, 1994] attending an Eating Disorder Unit, and healthy volunteers.Main Outcome MeasuresSelf-report and objective measures of everyday memory and related processes; self-report and objective measures relating to state of illness; self-report measures of attendant anxiety and depression.ResultsPatients were found to be impaired on all measures of memory and related processes. Degree of impairment correlated variously with state of illness measures and depression/anxiety measures.ConclusionsThese data suggest that patients with eating disorders are impaired in their ability to engage in day-to-day and more directed activities that depend upon memory and related processes. Helping patients develop strategies to overcome these difficulties may be a useful nursing addition to existing treatment packages and may improve treatment efficacy.
AB - ObjectivesTo investigate everyday memory and related processes in patients with eating disorders and to consider how problems with these processes may impact upon their psychosocial functioning and ability to engage in cognitively demanding aspects of treatment programmes.DesignTwo case-control studies.SettingRegional Eating Disorders Service in the North East of England.ParticipantsPatients with Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) [DSM-IV, 1994] attending an Eating Disorder Unit, and healthy volunteers.Main Outcome MeasuresSelf-report and objective measures of everyday memory and related processes; self-report and objective measures relating to state of illness; self-report measures of attendant anxiety and depression.ResultsPatients were found to be impaired on all measures of memory and related processes. Degree of impairment correlated variously with state of illness measures and depression/anxiety measures.ConclusionsThese data suggest that patients with eating disorders are impaired in their ability to engage in day-to-day and more directed activities that depend upon memory and related processes. Helping patients develop strategies to overcome these difficulties may be a useful nursing addition to existing treatment packages and may improve treatment efficacy.
KW - Eating disorders
KW - Memory
KW - Cognition
U2 - 10.1016/j.cein.2005.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.cein.2005.03.004
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 176
EP - 188
JO - Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing
JF - Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing
SN - 1361-9004
IS - 3-4
ER -