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Saggi, Studi e Ricerche

No. 56 (2020)

Comorbilità tra disturbi da uso di sostanze e disturbi dell’alimentazione e della nutrizione: un’indagine nei Servizi per le Dipendenze e le Comunità Terapeutiche del Veneto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/mis56-2020oa12347
Submitted
luglio 30, 2021
Published
2021-12-30

Abstract

The authors describe the results of an investigations carried out in Addiction Services and Therapeutic Communities of Veneto. The main purpose of the investigation was to identify the presence comorbidity or suspicion of comorbidity between Feeding and Eating Disorders and Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders at the Veneto Regional Health System (Departments for Addiction and Private Social Entities), since these disorders seem to have some features in common.

To do so, it has been administered a short questionnaire to operators of these services in which they had to estimate the cases of comorbidity among patients who were being taking over in that moment or in the months before. The questionnaire, besides, included the request to assess the quality of the collaboration – if there had been – with feeding and eating disorders services and to express their own interest to a training in feeding and eating disorder.

The data collected show the presence of a comorbidity between Feeding and Eating disorders and Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders and highlight the need to invest in the presence of specific therapeutic facilities for patients in co-morbidity. Besides, the authors underline the importance of a training on diagnosis and treatment of feeding and eating disorders among operators of pathological addiction.

The authors think it would be interesting to do a study to assess the real presence of a comorbidity, using screening or diagnostic tools among a representative sample.

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