Confusion between avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, restricted intake self-harm, and anorexia nervosa: developing a primary care decision tree
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Confusion between avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, restricted intake self-harm, and anorexia nervosa: developing a primary care decision tree British Journal of General Practice, December 2024 LIFE & TIMES | 559Eating disorders are typically and appropriately managed in specialist services.However, despite national policy recommending self-referral as an access route, 1 in most cases the front door is via a referral from primary care.While GPs and Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) mental health staff remain in an excellent position to do this, they are of course over-burdened, short on time, and, in most cases, not expert in this area.Restriction of food intake can indicate a range of nuanced clinical presentations within the eating disorders spectrum, each needing a different treatment approach.This increases the unintentional likelihood of initially mislabelling restricted eating presentations as the most well-known eating disorder: anorexia nervosa (AN).Doing so could lead to inappropriate signposting, frustrating bounce-back referrals, assessments without treatment, or treatments that are not best suited.
Authors: Clare Ellison, Ursula Philpot
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4404798498