Predictors of family-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders: Do family or diagnostic factors matter?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Misconceptions around which patients will and will not benefit from family-based treatment (FBT) for adolescent eating disorders (EDs) limit referrals and access to this treatment modality. The present study explored whether common demographic and clinical factors that may prevent referral to FBT predict treatment outcomes in adolescent anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN).

Method

The following predictors of treatment outcomes were assessed: baseline family and diagnostic factors (socioeconomic status, comorbidity, illness duration, parent feelings of self-efficacy, family status, prior treatment, sex and prior hospitalizations) in a combined sample of adolescents receiving FBT compared to those randomized to other treatment conditions, across six clinica

SUBMITTER: Datta N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898138 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature