Effects of family-based treatment on adolescent outpatients treated for anorexia nervosa in the Eating Disorder Unit of Helsinki University Hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Family therapy for adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) has stronger evidence of efficacy in comparison with individual therapy, and family-based treatment (FBT) is the most evaluated in numerous randomized clinical trials. However, few studies have focused on how FBT performs outside of research settings. The current study is the first to assess clinical outcomes of FBT for adolescent AN in Finland, in a specialized outpatient clinic.

Aim

The naturalistic outcome of outpatient FBT for adolescent AN was investigated.

Methods

Fifty-two female patients and their families who received FBT at a tertiary eating disorders unit participated in the study. Data on their pre-treatment parameters, treatment details, and condition at the end of treatment (EOT) was collecte

SUBMITTER: Oshukova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10496370 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature