Effect of cognitive bias modification training on body image dissatisfaction in adolescents with anorexia nervosa or depression-a pilot feasibility randomized controlled crossover study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Body image disturbance presents transdiagnostically with an impact on the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders. Addressing body image disturbance, a cognitive bias modification training (CBM) was developed using a two-alternative forced choice task (2-AFC) to alter patients' individual perceptual boundary between what they classify as a fat versus a thin body. This pilot study aimed to evaluate, for the first time, the paradigm's feasibility and efficacy in adolescents in a clinical context.

Methods

This pilot study included adolescent inpatients aged 13-17 years diagnosed with (atypical) anorexia nervosa (n = 12) or depression (n = 17), representing two prevalent disorders in adolescence. The 2-AFC task was tested in this populatio

SUBMITTER: Glombitza E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12510976 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature