title: Motivation to change among residential treatment patients with an eating disorder: assessment of the multidimensionality of motivation and its relation to treatment outcome.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the multidimensional nature of motivation to change in an adolescent sample in residential eating disorder (ED) treatment and relate it to outcome.
  
  
  METHODS
  To determine whether different dimensions of motivation (benefits, burdens, and functional avoidance) are differentially associated with symptom severity and outcome, we assessed eating pathology and motivation to change in consecutively admitted female patients (n = 67) with AN, BN, and EDNOS in a residential ED program with the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and the Decisional Balance Scale (DB).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pretreatment DB benefits and functional avoidance subscales were correlated with ED and comorbid psychopathology. Admission to discharge change in DB benefits-but not other measured dimensions of motivation was significantly associated with post-treatment EDE-Q global scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings support that motivation to change is a multidimensional construct among ED patients. A reduction in perceived benefits of illness is associated with less severe post-treatment eating pathology.
authors.affiliation: Klarman Eating Disorders Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. sdelinsky@gmail.com
authors.forename: Sherrie S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Delinsky
authors.forename: Jennifer J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: Sarah A St
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Germain
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ellison Craigen
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Weigel
authors.forename: Philip G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Levendusky
authors.forename: Anne E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Becker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001828:Body Image; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012114:Residential Treatment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult