title: [Comparison of instruments assessing the readiness to change in patients with anorexia nervosa].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study compares three instruments assessing the readiness to change in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa, and assesses their relationship to clinical data.
  
  
  METHODS
  Two of the instruments, the "Fragebogen zur Erfassung der eränderungsbereitschaft" (FEVER) and the "Anorexia Nervosa Stages of Change Questionnaire"(ANSOCQ), are questionnaires; the "Readiness and Motivation Interview"(RMI) is a semistructured interview. The sample consisted of 44 anorexia nervosa inpatients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The data of the three instruments correlate with each other to a medium high degree. Clinical variables such as BMI, bodyweight, and inpatient treatment duration show only a few, and mostly low, correlations. The therapeutic prognoses correlate with the motivation to change to a medium/high degree, whereas low motivation frequently correlates with negative predictions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ambivalence of the anorexia nervosa patients shows up mostly on the RMI, which also displays the highest correlations to the clinical data and to the EDI-2 data.
authors: Klinik für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie, Universität Ulm, Am Hochsträß 8, 89081 Ulm. joern.vonwietersheim@uniklinik-ulm.de
authors: Jörn
authors: J
authors: von Wietersheim
authors: Christina
authors: C
authors: Hoffmann
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D007902:Length of Stay; D009042:Motivation; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011379:Prognosis; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult