Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in eating disorders: an overview of Cochrane systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT: Eating disorders are psychiatric conditions originated from and perpetuated by individual, family and sociocultural factors. The psychosocial approach to treatment and prevention of relapse is crucial. To present an overview of the scientific evidence on effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in treatment of eating disorders. All systematic reviews published by the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - Cochrane Library on the topic were included. Afterwards, as from the least recent date of these reviews (2001), an additional search was conducted at PubMed with sensitive search strategy and with the same keywords used. A total of 101 primary studies and 30 systematic reviews (5 Cochrane systematic reviews), meta-analysis, guidelines or narrative reviews of literature were included

SUBMITTER: Costa MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943360 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature