Kutcher S P, Whitehouse A M, Freeman C P
Am J Psychiatry. 1985 Dec;142(12):1475-8. doi: 10.1176/ajp.142.12.1475.
The authors designed a study to determine the prevalence of "hidden" eating disorders among a large group of hospitalized psychiatric patients. Of 146 patients surveyed, 13.8% currently had eating disorders diagnosed according to DSM-III criteria: 7.3% had bulimia, 3.6% had anorexia nervosa, and 2.9% had an atypical disorder. Eighty percent of the bulimic patients and all of the patients with an atypical disorder had not been so identified by hospital diagnosis. Eating-disordered patients tended to have concurrent diagnoses of affective or personality disorders.
作者设计了一项研究，以确定一大群住院精神科患者中“隐匿性”饮食失调症的患病率。在接受调查的146名患者中，根据《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版（DSM-III）标准，目前有13.8%的患者被诊断患有饮食失调症：7.3%的患者患有贪食症，3.6%的患者患有神经性厌食症，2.9%的患者患有非典型饮食失调症。80%的贪食症患者和所有非典型饮食失调症患者此前未被医院诊断识别出来。患有饮食失调症的患者往往同时被诊断患有情感障碍或人格障碍。
