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Depression influences the EDI scores in anorexia nervosa patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Chantal Bizeul ,
Jean Marcel Brun  and
Daniel Rigaud
Chantal Bizeul
Affiliation:
Service d’Endocrinologie et Nutrition, CHU Le Bocage, 21079 Dijon cedex, France
Jean Marcel Brun
Affiliation:
Service d’Endocrinologie et Nutrition, CHU Le Bocage, 21079 Dijon cedex, France
Daniel Rigaud*
Affiliation:
Service d’Endocrinologie et Nutrition, CHU Le Bocage, 21079 Dijon cedex, France
*
*E-mail address: daniel.rigaud@chu-dijon.fr
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Abstract

Aim

To study the influence of the severity of depression on the eating disorder’s inventory (EDI) scores in anorexia nervosa (AN) patients.

Methods

We compared by variance analysis the EDI scores from three groups of AN patients: 55 patients having a major depression (as assessed by a Beck’s depression inventory (BDI) ≥ 16); 77 patients having a less severe depression (BDI < 16); 32 patients with mild or non-existent depression (BDI ≤ 7) and the EDI scores from a control group of 29 French healthy young women.

Results

Higher EDI scores were elicited in the more severely depressed AN patients than in the less- or non-depressed AN patients (P < 0.01). In non-depressed AN patients, none of the scores was different from those of the control group. This was particularly true for the scores “Slimness wish”, “bulimia”, “body image dissatisfaction”, “perfectionism” and “fear of maturity”. The non-depressed restrictive AN patients had no score which differ from healthy controls.

Discussions

The present results suggested that the EDI scores are clearly influenced by the severity of depression. Among the psychopathological and behavioural traits assessed with the EDI, only a few were not related to depressive symptoms: “feeling of inefficiency” and “distrust in interpersonal relations”.

Keywords

Eating disordersAnorexia nervosaDepressionEating disorder inventoryBeck depression inventory
Type
Original article
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , May 2003 , pp. 119 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS 2003

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