Are family relations connected to the quality of the outcome in adolescent anorexia nervosa? An observational study with the Lausanne Trilogue Play
Laura Balottina b, Stefania Mannarinia b, Martina Maria Mensic d✉, Matteo Alessio Chiappedic d, Umberto Balottinc d e f
- aInterdepartmental Center for Family Research, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, Section of Applied Psychology University of Padova Padova Italy
- bInterdepartmental Center for Family Research, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology, Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
- cChild Neuropsychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation Pavia Italy
- dChild Neuropsychiatry Unit, IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy
- eChild Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences University of Pavia Pavia Italy
- fChild Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
- ✉Corresponding author
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Abstract
The study aims to explore the connection between the family interactive patterns, investigated with a standardized observational tool based on a recorded play session, the Lausanne Trilogue Play, and the outcome of adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa after a 6 months treatment, based on the Morgan-Russel Outcome Assessment Schedule. Seventy-two parents and adolescent daughters with anorexia nervosa, consecutively referred to an adolescent neuropsychiatric service, participated in the study and underwent an integrated model of treatment, based on constant neuropsychiatric and dietary monitoring, weekly individual psychotherapy for the daughter, and parental counselling and support. A better adolescents' functioning in family relationships, in particular in the triadic ones, at first assessment, was associated with a better outcome. Data on family interactions may help predict the most appropriate intervention for the patient and his family.
TL;DRA better adolescents' functioning in family relationships, in particular in the triadic ones, at first assessment, was associated with a better outcome, which may help predict the most appropriate intervention for the patient and his family. (Semantic Scholar)