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Follow-up studies play a vital role in understanding the etiology and natural history of psychiatric disorders and in assessing the effectiveness of treatment interventions. While cross-sectional evaluation is central to the process of diagnosis and treatment planning, only longitudinal study of a disorder can confirm the accuracy of that diagnosis and the response to treatment. Follow-up is especially important in the field of eating disorders where therapies purporting to be effective are still controversial, and no single method has been demonstrated to be obviously superior to others. Also, follow-up helps to evaluate some treatments which are not dramatic in the short run, but prove themselves to be eventually effective. Some recent studies on interventions in coronary artery disease, for example, have begun to reveal results only after the 5- to 10-year observation points (The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial Research Group 1990).
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Andersen, A.E. (1992). Follow-up of Males with Eating Disorders. In: Herzog, W., Deter, HC., Vandereycken, W. (eds) The Course of Eating Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76634-3_5
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