Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by excessive restriction on food intake and irrational fear of gaining weight, often accompanied by a distorted body self-perception. It is clinically diagnosed more frequently in females, with type and severity varying with each case. The current report is a case of a 9-year-old female child, studying in 4th standard, hailing from an lower socio economic class from Hindu family, in khammam; referred from pediatric Opd to psychiatry Opd with complaints of gradual loss of weight, refusing to eat due to fear of getting fat, recurrent episodes of vomiting, in GMC, khammam, with a probable precipitating factor being parents separation. Diagnosis of atypical anorexia nervosa was made with no significant comorbidities. It highlights the early onset clinical presentation, assessment and management of anorexia nervosa by a multi-disciplinary health care team which includes a pediatrician, a dietician, and a psychiatrist
Author: Md Adil Faizan
Institution: Mamata Medical College
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4405862510