Posttraumatic stress disorder predicts non-completion of day hospital treatment for bulimia nervosa and other specified feeding/eating disorder.
Kathryn TrottierPublished in: European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association (2020)
PTSD appears to affect some individuals' ability to complete intensive ED treatment. Future research should examine whether PTSD predicts premature termination from less intensive ED treatments, as well as in other intensive treatment settings, and whether PTSD predicts poorer outcomes from ED treatment.