The purpose of this study is to explore the experience of adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa confronted with the prescription of antidepressants

In our adolescent psychiatric unit, antidepressant's prescription is common during the care pathway for adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

The literature highlights a paradox between scientific data and clinical practice, based on expert consensus. There are a very few qualitative studies in this subject and none of them concern adolescents.

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the experience and opinion of adolescents suffering from anorexia nervosa confronted with the prescription of antidepressants

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adolescents aged 12 to 25
• Suffering from anorexia nervosa [according to DSM-5 criteria]
• Has been prescribed for a type of SSRIs antidepressant (still ongoing or interrupted at the time of the interview)
• Non-opposition to the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Atypical eating disorder that do not meet DSM-5 criteria for restrictive anorexia nervosa
• Body Mass Index < 15
• Prescribed for another antidepressant than SSRIs

Adolescents (between 12 and 25 years) suffer from anorexia nervosa, at the Maison de Solenn, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France

• Use of a treatment database, named Actipidos
• Interview recording on a Dictaphone [kept all over the study in a locked drawer in a medical office at the Maison de Solenn, and then destroyed].
• Verbatim transcription, on a word-formatted file from a computer in a medical office at the Maison de Solenn; computer secured by a password.
• Transcripts will be anonymized with an identical number as soon as they are created; no non-anonymized data records will be kept beyond the end of the study.

6 months after publication

Interviews will be analysed with a qualitative methodology (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis)

- Emergent themes will be presented.