Differences in eating disorder symptoms and affect regulation for residential eating disorder patients with problematic substance use.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that residential ED treatment is an appropriate treatment choice for individuals with comorbid SUD. The observed improvements in affect dysregulation combined with a period of forced abstinence from maladaptive affect regulation behaviors may explain these positive results, though more research is needed to test the mechanisms of action of residential treatment for this population. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: IV, multiple time series analysis. PMID: 31612371 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research