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Men With Anorexia: a Descriptive Study Of The Characteristics Of Male Patients In An Intensive Psychotherapy Day Hospital For Eating Disorders During 2015 In Madrid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Espinosa Benavides ,
C. García Calvo ,
B. Unzeta Conde ,
M.P. Vilariño Besteiro  and
C. Pérez Franco
A. Espinosa Benavides*
Affiliation:
Instituto Psiquiátrico José Germain, Psiquiatría, Leganés, Spain
C. García Calvo
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Fuenlabrada, Psicología clínica, Fuenlabrada, Spain
B. Unzeta Conde
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Unidad de Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
M.P. Vilariño Besteiro
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Unidad de Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
C. Pérez Franco
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Unidad de Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Objective

To describe the main characteristics of male patients suffering from anorexia in a specialized unit for eating disorders management.

Introduction

As a result of a more prevalent diagnosis of eating disorders in women (including anorexia among others), male patients characteristics have been less described in current literature.

Methodology

The authors retrospectively reviewed the clinical history of all male patients attending our unit of Eating Disorders in a period of one year (2015). The recorded characteristics were analyzed and classified as demographic, clinical and biographical. Finally a bibliographic review was also performed and correlated with our results.

Conclusion

During our review (currently being performed) we have found that, even if in much less numbers than in women, the characteristics of male patients suffering anorexia have recognizable patterns and for instance can be used for the better understanding of this pathology in this population.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EV562
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S427
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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