Journal of Eating Disorders, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(1)

Опубликована: Март 11, 2025

Residential facilities for eating disorders are becoming increasingly common, providing recovery-oriented care in less restrictive environments compared to traditional hospital treatments. Despite their popularity, there is a lack of research regarding parent and carer experiences residential programs. Furthermore, while the impact on parents caregivers well-documented, understandings lived remain limited. The aim this study was explore Australia's first facility treatment disorders. As part clinical evaluation (June 2021 – August 2023), 15 participated semi-structured interview about experience treatment. Transcripts were analysed using inductive reflexive thematic analysis. Analysis generated six main themes from data: (1) When everything still not enough; (2) They giving us hope; (3) I just felt relief; (4) can resume role loving parent; (5) We almost need our own therapist; and, (6) Treatment access: There needs be hundred more. These collectively highlight both burden caring loved one with an ED parents' Overall, participants described as respite hope, enabling them reclaim aspects lives that had been overshadowed by disorder. Although "magic cure", viewed essential component broader continuum care. This highlights unique benefits model importance compassionate environment, underscoring supporting throughout process. Given critical carers outcomes, further deepen develop interventions support experiencing person primary people. prospectively registered Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR12621001651875p).

Язык: Английский