Eating disorder treatment dropout: What factors influence access to specialty care in an underresourced appalachian region?

=138; 89.9% female) were patients with EDs attending specialty outpatient treatment in a geographically isolated, under-resourced Appalachian community. Patient dropout rate was 26.8%. Dropout rates did not significantly differ across any sociocultural factors except patient age and BMI; patients who discontinued were older and had higher BMIs at intake, perhaps due to longer duration of illness or treatment-related misconceptions. Implications and future directions are discussed.