“Your mind doesn’t have room for anything else”: a qualitative study of perceptions of cognitive functioning during and after recovery from anorexia nervosa

Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of participants

Participant	Age	AN sub-type	Current BMI (kg/m²)	Lowest BMI (kg/m²)	Co-morbidities	Current therapy	EDE-Q Global Score	DASS Overall Score	Duration of symptoms (years)	Duration of diagnosis (years)	Duration of recovery (years)
Current anorexia nervosa
P01	23	–	17.2	16.4	Anxiety Depression	None	3.4	48	7	3	N/A
P02	29	AN-R	10.8	10.3	Anxiety	Inpatient	3.3	90	15	8	N/A
P03	43	AN-R	15.2	14.7	None	Outpatient (Private)	2.4	54	12	14.5	N/A
P04	30	AN-R	12.8	12.2	None	Outpatient	4.8	84	22	16	N/A
P05	25	AN-R	13.4	9.7	Depression EUPD	Outpatient	3.4	70	14	13	N/A
P06	31	–	17.3	12.0	Depression	Outpatient	5.5	104	20	9.8	N/A
P07	25	AN-R	14.5	10.7	Anxiety Depression	None	4.1	40	11	10	N/A
P08	23	AN-R	13.7	13.7	Depression	Outpatient	2.6	88	12	13	N/A
P09	20	AN-R	15.9	15.7	Anxiety Depression	Outpatient	5.3	70	12	0.1	N/A
P10	34	AN-BP	15.5	14.6	Depression	None	4.0	96	20	21	N/A
P11	32	AN-R	16.9	15.1	Depression	Outpatient (Private)	3.2	8	4	4	N/A
Recovered from anorexia nervosa
P12	29	AN-R	19.4	16.9	Anxiety	None	1.8	20	10	7	3.5
P13	33	AN-R	19.0	13.2	Anxiety ASD	None	0.4	6	13	9	5
P14	21	AN-R	19.0	14.4	Anxiety Depression	None	0.2	26	5	3	1.1
P15	23	AN-R	25.2	16.9	Depression	–	2.7	12	9	4.3	-
P16	25	AN-R	19.4	14.9	PTSD	–	0.5	8	12	9	5
P17	23	AN-R	20.5	13.8	None	None	0.5	26	10.9	9.3	1
P18	20	AN-R	18.8	14.0	Anxiety Depression	–	1.5	20	5	3.3	2
P19	29	AN-R	19.8	13.0	Anxiety Depression	None	0.9	36	13.3	11.5	-
P20	20	AN-BP	22.8	18.6	None	None	2.3	56	8	4	2
P21	21	AN-R	19.0	14.5	None	–	0.5	26	11	10	1.1

AN anorexia nervosa, AN-BP AN binge-purge subtype, AN-R AN restrictive subtype, ASD Autism Spectrum Disorder, BMI body mass index, DASS Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, EDE-Q Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire, EUPD Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, PTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

ISSN: 2050-2974