Defining Recovery in Adult Bulimia Nervosa |
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| Authors: | Jessica Yu W Stewart Agras Susan Bryson |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey , Piscataway , New Jersey , USA jessica.yu@rutgers.edu;3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine , Stanford , California , USA |
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| Abstract: | To examine how different definitions of recovery lead to varying rates of recovery, maintenance of recovery, and relapse in bulimia nervosa (BN), end-of-treatment (EOT) and follow-up data were obtained from 96 adults with BN. Combining behavioral, physical, and psychological criteria led to recovery rates between 15.5% and 34.4% at EOT, though relapse was approximately 50%. Combining these criteria and requiring abstinence from binge eating and purging when defining recovery may lead to lower recovery rates than those found in previous studies; however, a strength of this definition is that individuals who meet this criteria have no remaining disordered behaviors or symptoms. |
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