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Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of healthcare professionals in treating adolescents with AN. A qualitative study approach was conducted. Through semi-structured interviews, 16 healthcare professionals, including 10 nurses, 3 dieticians and 3 physicians from the paediatric ward at a university-affiliated medical centre in central Taiwan, shared their experiences. Recorded interviews were transcribed and analyzed by content analysis. Five themes and ten subthemes were identified: 1. Building a trusting relationship first: (a) spending time to build trust with the client and (b) establishing a relationship with the client\u2019s parents; 2. The key to treatment success: (a) Clients\u2019 awareness of the illness and (b) parents\u2019 support for clients; 3. Consistency of team treatment goals: (a) maintaining stable vital signs and (b) achieving caloric intake; 4. Empowerment with knowledge about anorexia: (a) continuing education for healthcare professionals and (b) interdisciplinary collaborative care; and 5. Using different interaction strategies: (a) the hard approach and (b) the soft approach. In conclusion, the findings will provide important information for healthcare professionals to apply in monitoring the psychological and emotional states of adolescents with AN. The findings indicate that healthcare professionals should invite parents to participate in the treatment, support and guide them in their adolescent care, develop scales of family stress and support for AN in adolescents, develop interventions, and establish an early therapeutic alliance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijerph20010794","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,2]],"date-time":"2023-01-02T04:51:22Z","timestamp":1672635082000},"page":"794","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["The Treatment Experience of Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescents from Healthcare Professionals\u2019 Perspective: A Qualitative Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Yu-Shan","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 406040, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung 406040, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fang-Tzu","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung 433304, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1152-6596","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Li-Chi","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Nursing, China Medical University, Taichung 406040, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Nursing, China Medical University Children Hospital, Taichung 404333, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5709-0017","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shu-Ling","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Hungkuang University, Taichung 433304, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1773","DOI":"10.1016\/j.comppsych.2014.07.017","article-title":"Re-examining premature mortality in anorexia nervosa: A meta-analysis redux","volume":"55","author":"Keshaviah","year":"2014","journal-title":"Compr. 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