Discipline of Psychology, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
Discipline of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
Int J Eat Disord. 2020 Aug;53(8):1204-1208. doi: 10.1002/eat.23165. Epub 2019 Aug 30.
The current research investigated whether a consensus among professional eating disorder researchers existed for definitions of remission and recovery that could be used in research.
Membership of the Eating Disorder Research Society and attendees at the 2018 annual meeting in Sydney were invited to participate in this investigation. Two surveys were conducted with 62 and 122 respondents, respectively. The first survey used a mix of forced choice yes/no or scaled responses. The second survey was a free response to the question "which definitions of recovery do you favor?"
A majority consensus emerged about three issues. First, it was agreed that it was important to develop a standard definition of recovery for research purposes. Second, recovery needed to be evident over a 12-month period, with remission evident over a 3- to 12-month period. Third, recovery and remission required the absence of diagnostic criteria in addition to the presence of functional recovery.
Consensus is apparent in the field. We suggest that future research seeks to: (a) validate the most commonly researched definition of remission and recovery across different eating disorders using a standardized battery of assessments, and (b) better understand differences in self-assessed and psychometrically assessed recovery.
本研究旨在探讨专业饮食失调研究人员是否就可用于研究的缓解和康复定义达成共识。
邀请饮食失调研究学会的会员和 2018 年在悉尼举行的年会的与会者参与这项调查。分别进行了两次调查，共有 62 名和 122 名受访者参加。第一次调查采用强制选择“是/否”或量表回答的方式。第二次调查的问题是“您赞成哪些康复定义？”，要求自由回答。
在三个问题上达成了多数共识。首先，一致认为为研究目的制定一个标准的康复定义很重要。其次，康复需要在 12 个月内明显，缓解需要在 3 至 12 个月内明显。第三，除了功能恢复外，康复和缓解还需要没有诊断标准。
该领域已经达成共识。我们建议未来的研究应：（a）使用标准化的评估工具，验证不同饮食失调症中最常研究的缓解和康复定义；（b）更好地理解自我评估和心理评估中康复的差异。
