Comparison between continued inpatient treatment versus day patient treatment after short inpatient care in early onset anorexia nervosa (COTIDEA trial): a study protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In children with early-onset anorexia nervosa (first symptoms before 13 years old, EO-AN), experts recommend initial outpatient treatment but in-patient treatment (IP) is frequently indicated due to acute medical instability or for those who have not improved with outpatient treatment. This IP can target either a partial weight restauration or a total weight normalization (return to the previous BMI growth trajectory). There are no evidence in the literature on which is the better therapeutic option in EOAN. But as long length of stay induce social isolation, with elevated costs, we wonder if a stepped-care model of daypatient treatment (DP) after short IP stabilisation may be a treatment option as effective as full-time IP to target weight normalization. We designed a t

SUBMITTER: Ayrolles A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10563254 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature