Amelia Austin, Umanga De Silva, Christiana Ilesanmi, Theerawich Likitabhorn, Isabel Miller, Maria da Luz Sousa Fialho, S Bryn Austin, Belinda Caldwell, Chu Shan Elaine Chew, Sook Ning Chua, Suzanne Dooley-Hash, James Downs, Carine El Khazen Hadati, Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann, Jillian Lampert, Yael Latzer, Paulo P P Machado, Sarah Maguire, Madeeha Malik, Carolina Meira Moser, Elissa Myers, Iris Ruth Pastor, Janice Russell, Lauren Smolar, Howard Steiger, Elizabeth Tan, Eva Trujillo-Chi Vacuán, Mei-Chih Meg Tseng, Eric F van Furth, Jennifer E Wildes, Christine Peat, Tracy K Richmond
The effectiveness of mental health care can be improved through coordinated and wide-scale outcome measurement. The International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement has produced collaborative sets of outcome measures for various mental health conditions, but no universal guideline exists for eating disorders. This Position Paper presents a set of outcomes and measures for eating disorders as determined by 24 international experts from professional and lived experience backgrounds. An adapted Delphi technique was used, and results were assessed through an open review survey...
September 25, 2023: Lancet Psychiatry