Physical and psychological aspects of anorexia nervosa based on duration of illness: a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Psychological features of patients with AN

	Short	Long	P value
n	118	86
	24.25±15.27	30.60±14.64	0.0039
STAI
State	51.05±11.92	57.80±10.81	<0.0001
Trait	53.27±13.88	59.94±13.45	0.0011
EDI
Drive for thinness	7.67±7.22	11.07±6.98	0.0020
Lack of interoceptive awareness	9.70±8.46	12.91±8.82	0.0070
Bulimia	4.46±6.60	10.18±8.14	<0.0001
Body dissatisfaction	12.38±6.44	15.37±5.99	0.0010
Ineffectiveness	11.42±7.77	16.23±7.50	<0.0001
Maturity fears	9.21±4.52	10.22±5.66	ns
Perfectionism	4.22±4.45	5.63±4.89	0.0367
Interpersonal distrust	8.38±4.64	9.86±4.74	0.0304
Total	67.37±37.20	89.38±40.50	<0.0001
PBI
Care	27.63±7.64	21.96±9.64	<0.0001
Overprotection	10.66±7.93	15.56±8.78	<0.0001
Total	38.31±7.44	37.57±8.28	ns
TAS-20
Difficulty identifying feeling	19.92±8.07	21.78±7.30	ns
Difficulty describing feeling	17.01±4.84	17.76±4.50	ns
Externally-oriented thinking	21.05±3.82	20.48±4.19	ns
Total	58.06±13.48	60.01±12.66	ns

CES-D The Center for Epidemiologic Depression Scale, STAI State-Trait Anxiety Scale, EDI Eating Disorder Inventory, PBI Parental Bonding Instrument, TAS-20 Toronto Alexithymia Sclae-20

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