OBJECTIVE: This study compares Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of subtypes of eating disorder patients in France and the United States. METHOD: The patients were hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals in France and the United States. Diagnoses were made by independent clinicians who reviewed the clinical material. The 550-item version of the MMPI was administered to the US subjects; and a 357-item version to the French. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In both the US and French subjects, more psychopathology was found in the groups diagnosed with both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa than in those with either anorexia nervosa or bulimia alone, consistent with previous research. The US subjects had generally more psychopathology than the French, except in the anorexia-restrictor subgroup.
OBJECTIVE: This study compares Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of subtypes of eating disorderpatients in France and the United States. METHOD: The patients were hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals in France and the United States. Diagnoses were made by independent clinicians who reviewed the clinical material. The 550-item version of the MMPI was administered to the US subjects; and a 357-item version to the French. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In both the US and French subjects, more psychopathology was found in the groups diagnosed with both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa than in those with either anorexia nervosa or bulimia alone, consistent with previous research. The US subjects had generally more psychopathology than the French, except in the anorexia-restrictor subgroup.
Authors: T Nozaki; M Takao; S Takakura; C Koreeda-Arimura; K Ishido; Y Yamada; K Kawai; M Takii; C Kubo Journal: Eat Weight Disord Date: 2006-06 Impact factor: 4.652