Association of Beck Depression Inventory score and Temperament and Character Inventory-125 in patients with eating disorders and severe malnutrition

Table 1 Past studies utilizing TCI to measure personality of AN patients: comparison with healthy controls

Participants	n	NS	HA	RD	PS	SD	CO	ST
AN [8]	122	n.s.	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓	↑	n.s.
AN [9]	141	↓	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓	n.s.	n.s.
AN-R [10]^a	66	↓	n.s.	↓	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓
AN-R [9]	70	n.s.	↑	n.s.	↑	↓	n.s.	n.s.
AN-R [11]	146	↓	↑	↓	↑	n.s.	↓	↓
AN-BP [10]^a	59	n.s.	n.s.	↓	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓
AN-BP [9]	71	n.s.	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓	n.s.	n.s.
AN-BP [11]	60	n.s.	↑	n.s.	n.s.	↓	↓	n.s.

TCI Temperament and Character Inventory, AN anorexia nervosa, n number, AN-R anorexia nervosa, restricting type, AN-BP anorexia nervosa binge-eating/purging type, NS novelty seeking, HA harm avoidance, RD reward dependence, PS persistence, SD self-directedness, CO cooperativeness, ST self-transcendence, ↑ significantly higher than healthy controls, ↓ significantly lower than healthy controls, n.s. not significant
^aData adjusted for Beck Depression Inventory scale and age

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