Cognitive behavioral therapy may reduce relapse risk for adults with AN after weight restoration , although its efficacy in the underweight state remains unknown .
Variants of family therapy are efficacious in adolescents , but not in adults .
Evidence for AN treatment is weak ; evidence for treatment-related harms and factors associated with efficacy of treatment are weak ; and evidence for differential outcome by sociodemographic factors is nonexistent .
OBJECTIVE The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence -based Practice Center ( RTI-UNC EPC ) systematic ally review ed evidence on efficacy of treatment for anorexia nervosa ( AN ) , harms associated with treatments , factors associated with treatment efficacy , and differential outcome by sociodemographic characteristics .
Combined cognitive-behavioral, psychopharmacological and nutritional therapy in bulimia nervosa.
Fifteen women with bulimia nervosa were treated with a 4-month course of combined cognitive-behavioral , nutritional and antidepressant therapy ( 5 with amineptine and 10 with fluvoxamine ) . Patients were monitored before and after 1 , 2 and 4 months of therapy for body mass index ( BMI ) , for eating disorder symptoms by the Eating Disorder Inventory ( EDI ) and the Bulimic Investigation Test ( BITE ) , and for depression and anxiety by the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and for Anxiety ( HRS-D and -A ) . BITE symptoms and gravity improved significantly and equally in the two groups during the 4 months of therapy . Global EDI scores , depression and anxiety decreased but not significantly . BMI was normal before therapy and did not change during treatment
Cognitive behavioral therapy may reduce relapse risk for adults with AN after weight restoration , although its efficacy in the underweight state remains unknown .
Variants of family therapy are efficacious in adolescents , but not in adults .
Evidence for AN treatment is weak ; evidence for treatment-related harms and factors associated with efficacy of treatment are weak ; and evidence for differential outcome by sociodemographic factors is nonexistent .
OBJECTIVE The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence -based Practice Center ( RTI-UNC EPC ) systematic ally review ed evidence on efficacy of treatment for anorexia nervosa ( AN ) , harms associated with treatments , factors associated with treatment efficacy , and differential outcome by sociodemographic characteristics .