We focused on carers of subjects suffering from eating disorders (ED), and studied the characteristics that mostly expose them to high levels of stress, anxiety, depression and expressed emotion, favoring the accommodation of the family system to the cared person. We administered the Accommodation and Enabling scale for Eating disorders (AESED) questionnaire, the Family Questionnaire (FQ) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) questionnaire to 97 carers of 62 eating disorders patients, and investigated the carer's characteristics associated with the scores in the three questionnaires. A personal history of eating disorders, being the primary carer, and caring for a person with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa are the characteristics that contribute most to aggravate the carers' burden in terms of stress, anxiety, depression, accommodation and enabling. Our findings may help doctors to provide effective support to caregivers and eventually improve the treatment of subjects with eating disorders.
Living with someone with an eating disorder: factors affecting the caregivers’ burden / Stefanini Maria Cristina , Troiani Maria Rita, Caselli Michela, Dirindelli Paolo, Lucarelli Stefano, Caini Saverio, Martinetti Maria Grazia.. - In: EATING AND WEIGHT DISORDERS. - ISSN 1590-1262. - ELETTRONICO. - 24:(2019), pp. 1209-1214. [10.1007/s40519-018-0480-7]
Living with someone with an eating disorder: factors affecting the caregivers’ burden.
Stefanini Maria Cristina
;TROIANI, MARIA RITA;Caselli Michela;Dirindelli Paolo;CAINI, SAVERIO;Martinetti Maria Grazia.
2019
Abstract
We focused on carers of subjects suffering from eating disorders (ED), and studied the characteristics that mostly expose them to high levels of stress, anxiety, depression and expressed emotion, favoring the accommodation of the family system to the cared person. We administered the Accommodation and Enabling scale for Eating disorders (AESED) questionnaire, the Family Questionnaire (FQ) and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) questionnaire to 97 carers of 62 eating disorders patients, and investigated the carer's characteristics associated with the scores in the three questionnaires. A personal history of eating disorders, being the primary carer, and caring for a person with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa are the characteristics that contribute most to aggravate the carers' burden in terms of stress, anxiety, depression, accommodation and enabling. Our findings may help doctors to provide effective support to caregivers and eventually improve the treatment of subjects with eating disorders.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.