example case study - luk and agoha Flashcards

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what was the aim?

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  • to describe the experience of chinese- american adolescent girl with AN using a case study from multiple perspectives
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what was the sample?

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  • 15 year old girl called amy
  • diagnosed at 13 and showed severe calorie restriction and excessive exercise
  • BMI = 11.8
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what care did she recieve?

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  • transferred to the child/adolescent psychiatric ward
  • underwent individual and group therapy, daily weigh ins and monitoring of meals
  • discharged after 3 months and goal weight was reached
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what was her background?

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  • family meal times were significant
  • highly argumentative with her mother and often had emotional outbursts with her at appointments
  • didn’t want to eat at home
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describe her recovery process

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  • consistently made it to appointments on her own
  • continued to refuse meals with family and opted to prepare her own at home
  • successfully gained a part time job at a cookie store
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how was the data gathered interpreted?

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  • consistent with developmental theories (maternal nurturance lacking)
  • cultural clash between her friends and parents (chose to reject ancestral culture through food)
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what were the strengths of this case study?

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  • parental and youth consent gained
  • inpatient and outpatient data reviewed = triangulation
  • quantitative data gathered e.g. BMI = objective
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what are the weakness of the case study?

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  • retrospective review data already exists so may be interpreted differently by different people
  • small sample size of one girl = low G
  • Chinese-American so may not find the same results in different cultures
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