{"title":"Eating Disorder Treatment Dropout: What Factors Influence Access to Specialty Care in an Underresourced Appalachian Region?","authors":"Angeline R Bottera, Jessica L Luzier","doi":"10.1037/rmh0000230","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Appalachia is uniquely impacted by healthcare disparities. Outpatient dropout rates remain a significant barrier for individuals necessitating specialty eating disorder (ED) treatment. We explored factors impacting patient continuation in specialty outpatient care for EDs. Participants (<i>N</i>=138; 89.9% female) were patients with EDs attending specialty outpatient treatment in a geographically isolated, under-resourced Appalachian community. Patient dropout rate was 26.8%. Dropout rates did not significantly differ across any sociocultural factors except patient age and BMI; patients who discontinued were older and had higher BMIs at intake, perhaps due to longer duration of illness or treatment-related misconceptions. Implications and future directions are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":74746,"journal":{"name":"Rural mental health","volume":"47 2","pages":"123-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10552972/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Rural mental health","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1037/rmh0000230","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Appalachia is uniquely impacted by healthcare disparities. Outpatient dropout rates remain a significant barrier for individuals necessitating specialty eating disorder (ED) treatment. We explored factors impacting patient continuation in specialty outpatient care for EDs. Participants (N=138; 89.9% female) were patients with EDs attending specialty outpatient treatment in a geographically isolated, under-resourced Appalachian community. Patient dropout rate was 26.8%. Dropout rates did not significantly differ across any sociocultural factors except patient age and BMI; patients who discontinued were older and had higher BMIs at intake, perhaps due to longer duration of illness or treatment-related misconceptions. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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