Évaluation de l'efficacité d'une thérapie cognitivocomportementale sur les symptômes cliniques des troubles du comportement alimentaire chez des patientes traitées en hôpital de jour

The number of people suffering from eating disorders (ED) has clearly increased since the last decade. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) in a day hospital program. At the end of the supervision of patients, we noted whether there was a decrease in the seriousness and intensity of the symptoms concerning eating disorders, depression, anxiety, alexithymia and body concerns. All the patients were assessed before and after treatment with the following material: the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), the Bulimic Investigatory Test of Edinburgh (BITE), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety (STAI), the Twenty-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and the Structural Clinical Interview for Disorders (SCID-2). The results of this study led us to conclude that anxiety was the disorder with which CBT had been the most effective. The conclusions suggest that this day treatment program had demonstrated efficacy, as far as the clinical symptoms of eating disorders and the comorbid clinical symptoms are concerned, even if some differences are not significant.