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  • 24 - Strategies for secondary prevention

  • from Part V - Public health perspectives
  • Edited by Tony Jaffa
  • Brett McDermott, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents
    Published online:
    02 December 2009
    Print publication:
    14 December 2006, pp 305-316

  • Summary

    Secondary prevention is an early intervention approach to seek out emerging manifestations of eating disorders (EDs), and by early intervention to reduce the likelihood of disease progression. This chapter describes the major issues including effectiveness of secondary prevention. Screening programmes for risk factors and early signs of eating disorders have tended to focus on secondary schools and to be run in two stages. The first consists of a self-report questionnaire such as the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT). The second consists of interviewing those students with high scores on the questionnaire, often using the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE). To be effective, secondary prevention has to be followed by prompt and effective treatment focusing not only on the motivation of ED patients to recover, the disordered eating behaviour and weight restoration, but also the psychological, emotional and social condition of the patient.