The effectiveness of family-based treatment and pharmacotherapy in an adolescent with anorexia nervosa and intellectual disability: a case report
Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
ISSN: 2044-1282
Article publication date: 18 June 2024
Issue publication date: 12 November 2024
Abstract
Purpose
This study aims to report the effectiveness of family based treatment and pharmacotherapy on an adolescent boy with anorexia nervosa and intellectual disability.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors reported the case of a 16-year-old boy with AN and ID and referred him to a family therapist and psychiatrist in Tehran.
Findings
The patient experienced fatigue, weakness, dissatisfaction, suicidal thoughts and self-harm signs over the past one year. He also had behaviors such as abstinence from eating and voluntary vomiting. He was diagnosed with AN and MDD.
Originality/value
The results suggest that these interventions can be effective but should be used with special consideration. Combining family therapy and pharmacotherapy might offer a chance to alleviate anorexia symptoms in people with ID.
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Acknowledgements
The authors of the article would like to thank the patient and his family who participated in the study.
Conflict of interests: There is no conflict of interest in this study.
Funding: This study did not receive any financial support from any organization.
Authors' contribution:
Mehri Moradi designed the study, performed the family therapy, analyzed data and wrote the manuscript.
Bonnie Bozorg revised the manuscript for important intellectual content critically.
Razieh Salehian performed the pharmacotherapy.
Mina Bozorg helped us in revising the manuscript.
Ethical approval: This article is a case report and because of urgent in performed the treatment taking an ethical code was impossible. Taking ethical approval in this type of study is optional. Case reports are not obliged to show “Ethical Approval Code”. But it is strongly recommended to obtain written and signed informed consent from patients/guardians for publishing the case report.
Citation
Moradi, M., Salehian, R., Bozorg, B. and Bozorg, M. (2024), "The effectiveness of family-based treatment and pharmacotherapy in an adolescent with anorexia nervosa and intellectual disability: a case report", Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities, Vol. 18 No. 4, pp. 141-148. https://doi.org/10.1108/AMHID-10-2023-0037
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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