The outcome of treatment for anorexia nervosa inpatients who required urgent hospitalization

Table 3 GCS subscales for anorexia nervosa patients who required urgent admission and a planned admission control group

	Urgent group	Planned group	p
Before admission	(n = 24)	(n = 109)
Body weight	3 ± 0	2.87 ± 0.41	0.01*
Eating habits	5.33 ± 2.82	5.62 ± 2.66	.65
Menstrual state	2.0 ± 0	1.83 ± 0.48	0.01*
Social adjustment:	2.58 ± 0.88	2.40 ± 0.85	0.369
Educational and/or vocational adjustment	2.70 ± 0.81	2.02 ± 1.29	0.01*
After discharge	(n = 19)	(n = 81)
Body weight	2.11 ± 1.15	1.43 ± 1.11	0.03*
Eating habits	5.42 ± 4.56	3.73 ± 3.04	0.138
Menstrual state	1.21 ± 0.97	0.86 ± 0.90	0.169
Social adjustment	2.42 ± 0.90	1.74 ± 1.07	0.08*
Educational and/or vocational adjustment	2.26 ± 1.24	1.15 ± 1.28	0.002*

Values are expressed as mean ± SD Comparisons among groups were made using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. *P < 0.05.

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