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 .
Randomized controlled trial of warming in anorexia nervosa.
OBJECTIVE To determine if warming therapy increases the rate of weight gain in patients with anorexia nervosa ( AN ) who are hospitalized for refeeding . METHOD Patients admitted to an eating disorders unit of a university teaching hospital were r and omized to treatment and control arms . All patients wore a heating vest for 3 hr a day for 21 days . In the experimental arm , the vest was set to medium heat and in the control arm it was set in the off position . RESULTS Twenty-one females were recruited . They had an average age of 28.4 + /- 6.6 years , a body mass index ( BMI ) of 17.7 + /- 2.8 , and the duration of AN lasted 13.6 + /- 6.7 years . Ten subjects were r and omized to the treatment arm and 11 to the control arm . Of the 18 completers , there was no difference in the change in BMI . DISCUSSION Our study did not demonstrate an increase in the rate of weight gain with warming
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 .