Which Finding Indicates That a Patient Diagnosed with Anorexia Nervosa

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which finding indicates that a patient diagnosed with anorexia nervosa has met a major objective of psychotherapeutic management?

• A) The patient's residual volume is less than 30 ml before tube feedings.
• B) The patient says, "I am no longer fearful of gaining weight."
• C) The patient reads cookbooks and plans nutritious meals.
• D) The patient weighs 90% of average body weight.

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Definitions:

Contingency Table

A table often used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables.

Z-Test

This is a statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.

Chi-Squared Test

A statistical method applied to ascertain whether a meaningful relationship exists between two variables of categorical nature.

Nominal Data

Data categorized into distinctly named groups without any natural order or ranking among them.