Problems of inpatient treatment for patients with eating disorder at general hospital

Abstract

In japan, there are a few hospitals where patients with eating disorder can have inpatient treatment. In our hospital, we started the inpatient treatment for eating disorders in May 2012, and we were confronted with difficult problems. In this paper, we discuss two problems usually happened during inpatient treatment for eating disorders at general hospitals. At first, there is a huge number of urgent hospital admission. Secondly, there are the difficulties to cooperate with medical staffs. There are essential for medical staffs, patients and their families to recognize the unexpected admission is meaningful only for physical treatment, but the effect is limited for psychiatric treatment. Repeated psychological educations for medical staffs should be needed because of the influence of eating disorder psychopathology.