Trial reportBMC psychiatry2013
A multi-centre cohort study of short term outcomes of hospital treatment for anorexia nervosa in the UK.
Trial report in BMC psychiatry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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42 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
- Inpatient treatments for adults with anorexia nervosa: a systematic review of literature.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Pooled it
- Apps targeting anorexia nervosa in young people: a systematic review of active ingredients.Translational behavioral medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient to Measure Autistic Traits in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2016Pooled it
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- Supporting Carers of Children and Adolescents with Eating Disorders in Austria (SUCCEAT): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2018Trial
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- Bridging inpatient and community treatment: feasibility, acceptability, and short-term outcomes of step care, a virtual CBT-E pathway for adults with severe eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Social function in adolescent eating disorders: lived experience framework for clinical practice.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Young Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: Identifying Predictors of Treatment Response.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Integration of physical and mental health services for children and young people with eating disorders and functional symptom disorders: discrete choice experiment.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Applying integrated enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy (I-CBTE) to severe and longstanding eating disorders (SEED) Paper 2: An in-depth case study for clinicians.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Predictors of treatment outcome in higher levels of care among a large sample of adolescents with heterogeneous eating disorders.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Families tackling adolescent anorexia nervosa: family wellbeing in family-based treatment or other interventions. A scoping review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Hypercapnia in hospitalized children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa as a predictive marker for readmission: a prospective study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Short-term effects of a multidisciplinary inpatient intensive rehabilitation treatment on body image in anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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- Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An autoethnography of diagnostic identity and performance of illness.Health (London, England : 1997) · 2023Article
- Implementing service transformation for children and adolescents with eating disorders across England: the theory, politics, and pragmatics of large-scale service reform.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- Integrated enhanced cognitive behavioural (I-CBTE) therapy significantly improves effectiveness of inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa in real life settings.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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18 authors at 13 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundIndividual, family and service level characteristics and outcomes are described for adult and adolescent patients receiving specialist inpatient or day patient treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN). Potential predictors of treatment outcome are explored.
methodAdmission and discharge data were collected from patients admitted at 14 UK hospital treatment units for AN over a period of three years (adult units N = 12; adolescent N = 2) (patients N = 177).
resultsOne hundred and seventy-seven patients with a severe and enduring illness with wide functional impairment took part in the study. Following inpatient care, physical improvement was moderate/good with a large increase in BMI, although most patients continued to have a clinical level of eating disorder symptoms at discharge. The potentially modifiable predictors of outcome included confidence to change, social functioning and carer expressed emotion and control.
conclusionsOverall, the response to inpatient treatment was modest particularly in the group with a severe enduring form of illness. Adolescents had a better response. Although inpatient treatment produces an improvement in physical health there was less improvement in other eating disorder and mood symptoms. As predicted by the carer interpersonal maintenance model, carer behaviour may influence the response to inpatient care, as may improved social functioning and confidence to change.
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