title: Predictors of short-term outcome variables in hospitalised female adolescents with eating disorders.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Research in eating disorders (EDs) suggests that outcome variables other than that of the ED per se, such as the presence of comorbid disorders and overall functioning at follow-up, may influence the ED condition at that time. We sought to assess the factors potentially predicting these different outcome variables.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-eight female adolescent in-patients with an ED were assessed on admission, discharge, and around one-year post-discharge using clinical interviews and self-rating questionnaires assessing ED and other relevant symptoms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean body mass index (BMI) of patients with anorexia nervosa increased from admission to discharge and was maintained at follow-up. Twenty-eight patients were remitted at follow-up, whereas 48 and 12 patients had intermediate and poor ED-related outcome, respectively. Follow-up BMI was correlated with baseline BMI. Good ED-related outcome at follow-up according to accepted criteria was associated with more lifetime suicide attempts and more severe baseline ED symptomatology. Elevated psychiatric comorbidity at follow-up was associated with elevated baseline anxiety and with re-hospitalisation during the post-discharge follow-up period. Better academic/occupational functioning and social functioning at follow-up were associated with less lifetime suicide attempts, less re-hospitalisation and lower baseline anxiety.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In EDs, diverse factors may predict different outcome variables.
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.
authors.forename: Ehud
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mekori
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.
authors.forename: Liron
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Halevy
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.
authors.forename: Shimrit Ilana
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Ziv
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.
authors.forename: Ayelet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.
authors.forename: Adi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Enoch-Levy
authors.affiliation: b Sackler Faculty of Medicine , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel.|c Felsenstein Medical Research Center , Rabin Campus , Petah Tiqva , Israel.
authors.forename: Abraham
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weizman
authors.affiliation: a Safra Children's Hospital, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center , Tel Hashomer , Israel.|b Sackler Faculty of Medicine , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015897:Comorbidity; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011379:Prognosis; D012074:Remission Induction
keywords: Anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; eating disorders; outcome; remission