Dysmorphophobia as a factor that worsens the affective state and the life quality of patients with eating disorders. The final data of the study

INTRODUCTION: Anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) take one of the first places in the risk of fatal outcome among eating disorders, have a tendency to chronicity and high suicidal risk. Psychopathological basis for AN and BN is a dysmorfofobia or a pathological dissatisfaction with one’s body, characterized by intrusive, overvalued or delusional ideas of physical disability. Dysmorfofobia affects the formation of affective pathology and reduces the life quality. OBJECTIVES: The study of the correlation between the degree of dissatisfaction with one’s bodies, affective disorders and life quality of patients with AN and BN. METHODS: 130 female patients with AN and BN at the age of 13-44 years (the average age is 18). The disease duration from 6 months to 24 years. Validated Questionnaire image of one’s own body (QIOB) and the Scale of satisfaction with one’s body (SSOB); Hospital anxiety and depression scale (Zigmond A.); Questionnaire for the assessment of life quality (SF-36); Microsoft Excel standard correlation calculation. RESULTS: Dissatisfaction with one’s body based on QIOB and SSOB tests has a significant positive correlation with anxiety and depression, a significant correlation with the psychological component of health, a weak correlation with the physical component of health. CONCLUSIONS: Dissatisfaction with one’s body or dysmorfofobia of patients with AN and BN significantly affects their affective state and psychological component of life quality which leads to a decrease in functioning up to social maladaptation and disability to social maladjustment. The publication was prepared with the support of the “RUDN University Program 5-100”.