Eating disorders affect more than 5% of young people, and they have one of the highest mortality rates of any mental illness.
Young patients with public health insurance have a much harder time accessing care, and they often get caught in a revolving door of hospital stays.
Researchers at UC San Francisco wondered if the cycle could be disrupted by giving outpatient therapy in the months after a first hospitalization.
They examined data from 920 California Medicaid enrollees ages 7 to 18 years old who had been hospitalized with an eating disorder.
These young patients received on average just two outpatient therapy sessions after leaving the hospital, and nearly half (45%) received none at all.
Therapy, when delivered,…
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