ArticleBMC psychiatry2017
Family-based intervention in adolescent restrictive eating disorders: early treatment response and low weight suppression is associated with favourable one-year outcome.
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- Restrictive eating disorders in higher weight persons: A systematic review of atypical anorexia nervosa prevalence and consecutive admission literature.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Recovery From Anorexia Nervosa: A Concept Analysis.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Comparing Outcomes for Telehealth Versus In-Person Family-Based Treatment: A Retrospective Chart Review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Diagnostic dilemma of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder after bariatric surgery: A case report and review of literature.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
- Preliminary validation of developmental weight suppression in youth with transdiagnostic eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Comparison of clinical presentation and treatment response among youth with atypical anorexia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.PloS one · 2025Article
- Psychotherapies for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- The Role of Weight Suppression in Intensive Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: A Longitudinal Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Implementation and outcomes of home-based treatments for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: Study protocol for a pilot effectiveness-implementation trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- From efficacy to effectiveness: child and adolescent eating disorder treatments in the real world (part 1)-treatment course and outcomes.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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- Refeeding in anorexia nervosa.European journal of pediatrics · 2019Article
- Weight gain trajectories during outpatient family-based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2018Article
- Changes and predictive value for treatment outcome of the compulsive exercise test (CET) during a family-based intervention for adolescents eating disorders.BMC psychology · 2018Article
- Weight Suppression in Eating Disorders: a Research and Conceptual Update.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- An Overview of Conceptualizations of Eating Disorder Recovery, Recent Findings, and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Weight suppression and its relation to eating disorder and weight outcomes: a narrative review.Eating disordersReview
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Abstract
backgroundFamily-based treatments are first-line treatments for adolescents with restrictive eating disorders (ED) but have to be improved since outcome is poor for some. We have investigated the one-year outcome of a family-based intervention programme with defined and decisive interventions at the start of treatment.
methodData pertaining 201 adolescents with restrictive ED with features of anorexia nervosa but not fulfilling the weight criterion starting treatment 2010-2015, had a wide range of body mass index (BMI) and of weight loss at presentation, and completed a one-year follow-up was analysed. Recovery from the ED was defined as an Eating Disorder Examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q) score < 2.0 or as not fulfilling criteria for an ED at a clinical interview.
resultsBy EDE-Q 130 (65%) had recovered at 1 year and by clinical interview 106 (53%). According to the EDE-Q criterion recovery was independently associated with lower EDE-Q score at presentation, higher weight gain after 3 months of treatment and lower weight suppression at follow-up, weight suppression being defined as the difference between premorbid and current BMI. Not fulfilling criteria for an ED was associated with the same factors and also by higher BMI at presentation.
conclusionThe observations that low weight and high ED cognitions confer a poor prognosis but that rapid weight gain at the start of treatment predicts a better prognosis are presently extended to adolescents with restrictive ED with a wide range of BMI at presentation. High weight suppression at follow-up is associated with a poor prognosis and indicates the importance of taking premorbid BMI into account when setting weight targets for treatment.
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