Method
Participants and treatment
The participants were 108 consecutive patients who met
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) criteria for AN
based on assessment using the Eating Disorder Examination
(EDE) interview [36, 37]. All participants had a BMI ≤
17.5 at admission to the program. See Table 1 for demographic
and clinical characteristics of the sample. Participants
were admitted to the hybrid inpatient/day treatment
unit of the Eating Disorders Program at a large general
hospital between 2010 and 2014. This program is a specialized
hospital-based program operated by an interdisciplinary
team consisting of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses,
dieticians, social workers, and occupational therapists. The
program goals include medical stabilization, weight restoration,
normalized eating through staff-supported meals, as
well as eradication of binge eating, purging, and excessive
exercise (citation omitted for blind review). Although the
underlying orientation of the program is cognitive-