Monte Nido network analysis project
Categories: Research project
The project is based on a clinical data set from the Monte Nido residential treatment facilities in the United States.
Maren collaborate with Prof. Tim Brewerton at the University of South Carolina on a large clinical dataset from the US, where we investigate central and maintaining symptoms for patients with and without PTSD through network analysis.
About the Project
The project is based on a clinical data set from the Monte Nido residential treatment facilities in the United States.
Objectives
The project aims to identify central symptoms in a large sample (N=<2000) of patients with eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Another aim is to identify central bridge nodes that maintain comorbidity (PTSD, anxiety, depression and quality of life) and compare networks with patients with and without PTSD, to see whether symptoms differ.
Results
Preliminary results from the first paper (currently in review), found that interoceptive awareness (the ability to recognize feelings and bodily sensations), ineffectiveness (feelings of being flawed), and overvaluation of shape were central to the overall network. Depression was a highly central bridge node, suggesting that depression maintains the comorbidity between eating disorders and PTSD.
Funding
No funding.
Contact Information
Project Contact: Maren Kopland
You can also reach us through the Modum Bad telephone service: 32 74 97 00.
Project team at Modum Bad
Hanna Punsvik Eielsen, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
KariAnne Vrabel, Ph.D.
Leder av Forskningsinstituttet / Førsteamanuensis II Universitetet i Oslo
Research leader, Specialist in clinical psychology, Associate professor
Project participants
- Timothy D. Brewerton, MD. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC USA. Monte Nido and Affiliates, Miami, FL USA.
- Maren C. G. Kopland, PhD Candidate. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Modum Bad Psychiatric Hospital, Vikersund, Norway.
- Ismael Gavidia, MSC. Monte Nido and Affiliates, Miami, FL USA
- Giulia Suro, PhD. Monte Nido and Affiliates, Miami, FL USA
- Molly M. Perlman, MD. Monte Nido and Affiliates, Miami, FL USA. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Miami, FL USA
Publications
A network analysis of eating disorder, PTSD, major depression, state-trait anxiety, and quality of life measures in eating disorder patients treated in residential care. In review, European Eating Disorder Review
