While psychotherapy is also involved, it is generally combined with weight gain through dieting, advice, and medical intervention. Both eating disorders require long term follow up with both psychiatrists and primary care physicians. Eating disorders demonstrate the relationship between emotional and physical health. Simply restoring a person to normal weight or halting the binge-purge cycle does not address the underlying causes of an eating disorder. This is why psychotherapy and occasionally antidepressants are part of the treatment plan.
Intensive treatment affords people with eating disorders an excellent chance for complete recovery.
This is especially true if one's illness is recognized early. Morgan and his research team plan to study the questionnaire's effectiveness on a female population numbering up to 200,000. They may also evaluate the use of the questionnaire in screening for eating disorders among adolescents, men, and specific groups or people that are at risk, such as ballet dancers, women in sports, and male wrestlers. Morgan has, however, received some criticism from physicians regarding the negative connotation of the word scoff . Further studies of the effectiveness of the questionnaire will continue to probe satisfaction with the screening tool's name.