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ReviewJournal of eating disorders2019

A conceptual comparison of family-based treatment and enhanced cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of adolescents with eating disorders.

Riccardo Dalle Grave, Sarah Eckhardt, Simona Calugi, Daniel Le Grange

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of eating disorders, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07178977 (Psychoeducation for Parents of Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa as a Supportive Treatment Approach), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07178977 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Psychoeducation for Parents of Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa as a Supportive Treatment Approach

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity Medical Centre LjubljanaRan2025 to 2028Enrolled70ConditionsEating Disorders, Anorexia NervosaArmsPsychoeducation group
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Riccardo Dalle Grave1Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Via Montebaldo 89 1-37016 Garda (VR), Verona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9796-3721
Sarah EckhardtCenter for the Treatment of Eating Disorders, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA.
Simona Calugi1Department of Eating and Weight Disorders, Villa Garda Hospital, Via Montebaldo 89 1-37016 Garda (VR), Verona, Italy.
Daniel Le Grange3Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA USA.
Casa di Cura Villa Garda · ITChildren’s Minnesota - St. Paul Hospital · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this paper is to give a conceptual comparison of family-based treatment (FBT), a specific form of family therapy, and enhanced cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E) in the management of adolescents with eating disorders. MAIN TEXT: FBT and CBT-E differ in the conceptualization of eating disorders, the nature of involvement of parents and the child/adolescent, the number of treatment team members involved, and evidence of efficacy. FBT is the leading recommended empirically- supported intervention for adolescents with eating disorders. Data from randomized controlled trials indicate that FBT works well with less than half of the parents and adolescents who accept the treatment, but cannot be used with those who do not have available parents, or for those with parents who are not accepting of a FBT model, or are unable to participate in a course of this treatment. CBT-E has shown promising results in cohort studies of patients between ages 11 and 19 years, and has recently been recommended for youth with eating disorders when FBT is unacceptable, contraindicated, or ineffective.

conclusionThere is a need to compare these two treatments in a randomized controlled trial to assess their acceptability, effectiveness, relative cost and cost-effectiveness, and to explore moderators of treatment response.

Indexed as

Anorexia nervosaEating disordersEnhanced cognitive behavior therapyFamily-based treatmentTreatment

Identifiers

PMID31893120
PMCPMC6937631
OpenAlexW2997595183

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