Am J Psychiatry 1985; 142:1475-1478
Copyright © 1985 by American Psychiatric Association
"Hidden" eating disorders in Scottish psychiatric inpatients
SP Kutcher, AM Whitehouse and CP Freeman
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.
