Premature Termination of Treatment among Adults Attending Treatment for Eating Disorders: A Critical Review

作     者：Flávia Machado Seidinger-Leibovitz Adams Rodrigues Malta Larissa Rodrigues Rodrigo Almeida Bastos Pedro Augusto Thiene Leme Daniela Ferreira Araújo Silva Egberto Ribeiro Turato Carla Maria Vieira Flávia Machado Seidinger-Leibovitz;Adams Rodrigues Malta;Larissa Rodrigues;Rodrigo Almeida Bastos;Pedro Augusto Thiene Leme;Daniela Ferreira Araújo Silva;Egberto Ribeiro Turato;Carla Maria Vieira

作者机构：Department of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry School of Medical Sciences State University of Campinas Campinas Brazil Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology School of Medical Sciences State University of Campinas Campinas Brazil Department of Health Sciences and Pediatric Dentistry Piracicaba Dental School State University of Campinas Piracicaba Brazil Federal University of Sã o Paulo Department of Preventive Medicine Sã o Paulo Brazil Science and Technology Center in Sovereignty and Food Security/Institute of Bioscience Sã o Paulo State University (UNESP) Botucatu Sã o Paulo Brazil 

出 版 物：《Open Journal of Medical Psychology》 (医学心理学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第9卷第3期

页      面：123-140页

学科分类：07[理学] 0701[理学-数学] 070101[理学-基础数学] 

主　　题：Eating Disorders Adults Patient Dropouts Attrition Premature Termination of Treatment Inpatients Outpatients 

摘      要：The article presents a critical review regarding the premature termination of eating disorder’s treatment among inpatients and outpatients, with the aim of identifying—emotional, psychodynamic and family-related aspects involved. The search strategy used the following MeSH terms combined by Boolean operators: “eating disorders AND “treatment OR “patient dropouts OR “drop-out/dropouts OR “attrition OR “premature termination AND “empirical study OR “qualitative research, for on Medline/PUBMED, PsycINFO and EMBASE databases. This article follows the PRISMA Guidelines. A total of 26 studies composed this review, of which 24 were original research articles, 1 was a review and 1 a theoretical article. Only two articles applied qualitative methods analyzing categories of content obtained by in-depth interviews, three combine quantitative and qualitative methods and other three present qualitative analyses while discussing quantitative studies. Further qualitative studies should be carried out to clarify meanings of dropout, premature termination of treatment, and attrition. Different expectations held by patients and by therapeutic teams, and the interpersonal difficulties of these types of patients, stand out as difficulties in constructing “therapeutic alliances, with impacts on dropout, premature termination and attrition rates.