STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL DATA ON ANOREXIA NERVOSA PATIENTS Page No: 2039-2041

JI Mbegbu, E Akpeli and FO Chete

Keywords: Anorexia nervosa, antidepressant, body mass index, bootstrapping, null hypothesis, patients.

Abstract: A sample of twenty anorexia nervosa patients on admission at Government Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin City were placed on antidepressant, vitamin and mineral supplements. After they were discharged from the hospital, an investigation was carried out to ascertain treatment effect of the drugs on the patients. On the assumption of normality of gain or loss in the body mass indices (BMI) of the patients, the null hypothesis of no treatment effect was rejected. The statistical results showed that the drugs yielded a significant treatment effect on the patients.



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