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Experiences of intensive treatment for people with eating disorders: a systematic review and thematic synthesis
Background: Eating disorders are complex difficulties that impact the individual, their supporters and society. Increasing numbers are being admitted to intensive treatment settings (e.g., for inpatient treatment, day-patient treatment or acute medical treatment). The lived experience perspectives of what helps and hinders eating disorder recovery during intensive treatment is an emerging area of interest. This review aims to explore patients’ perspectives of what helps and hinders recovery in these contexts.
Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify studies using qualitative methods to explore patients’ experiences of intensive treatment for an eating disorder. Article quality was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skill Programme (CASP) checklist and thematic synthesis was used to analyse the primary research and develop overarching analytical themes.
Results: Thirty articles met inclusion criteria and were included in this review. The methodological quality was mostly good. Thematic synthesis generated six main themes; collaborative care supports recovery; juxtapositions of the intensive environment; negotiating identity; supporting mind and body; the need for specialist support; and the value of close others. The included articles focused predominantly on specialist inpatient care and were from eight different countries. One clear limitation was that ethnicity data were not reported in 22 out of the 30 studies. When ethnicity data were reported, participants predominantly identified as white.
Conclusions: This review identifies that a person-centred, biopsychosocial approach is necessary throughout all stages of eating disorder treatment, with support from a sufficiently resourced and adequately trained multidisciplinary team. Improving physical health remains fundamental to overall eating disorder recovery, though psychological support is also essential to understand what causes and maintains the eating disorder and to facilitate a shift away from an eating disorder dominated identity. Carers and peers who instil hope and offer empathy and validation are valuable additional sources of support. Future research should explore what works best for whom and why, evaluating patient and carer focused psychological interventions and dietetic support during intensive treatment. Future research should also explore the long-term effects of, at times, coercive and traumatic treatment practices and determine how to mitigate against potential iatrogenic harm
Structural investigations on -FeGe at high pressure and low temperature
The structural parameters of -FeGe have been determined at ambient
conditions using single crystal refinement. Powder diffraction have been
carried out to determine structural properties and compressibility for
pressures up to 30 GPa and temperatures as low as 82 K. The discontinuous
change in the pressure dependence of the shortest Fe-Ge interatomic distance
might be interpreted as a symmetry-conserving transition and seems to be
related to a magnetic phase boundary line.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Zeno Dynamics in Quantum Statistical Mechanics
We study the quantum Zeno effect in quantum statistical mechanics within the
operator algebraic framework. We formulate a condition for the appearance of
the effect in W*-dynamical systems, in terms of the short-time behaviour of the
dynamics. Examples of quantum spin systems show that this condition can be
effectively applied to quantum statistical mechanical models. Further, we
derive an explicit form of the Zeno generator, and use it to construct Gibbs
equilibrium states for the Zeno dynamics. As a concrete example, we consider
the X-Y model, for which we show that a frequent measurement at a microscopic
level, e.g. a single lattice site, can produce a macroscopic effect in changing
the global equilibrium.Comment: 15 pages, AMSLaTeX; typos corrected, references updated and added,
acknowledgements added, style polished; revised version contains corrections
from published corrigend
InGaAs/GaAs/alkanethiolate radial superlattices: Experimental
A radial InGaAs/GaAs/1-hexadecanethiol superlattice is fabricated by the
roll-up of a strained InGaAs/GaAs bilayer passivated with a molecular
self-assembled monolayer. Our technique allows the formation of multi-period
inorganic/organic hybrid heterostructures. This paper contains the detailed
experimental description of how to fabricate these structures.Comment: 2 pages, no figures, Version 2; minor changes (fixed typos and update
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