Eating Disorders Primary Care Tools
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This mnemonic written by Margo Maine, PhD may help providers think about screening for eating disorders, and considering the ways their office, and their interactions might trigger persons at risk for eating disorders. Used Courtesy of www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/
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This questionnaire can be helpful to detecting undiagnosed eating disorders. It is important when a diagnosis is made to NOT reassure the patient. According to Dr. Powers, it’s important to not simply reassure the patient that everything will turn out fine medically and to remember that most often symptoms of the eating disorder are ego-syntonic but the physical complications are not.