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 .
Cognitive behavior therapy in the posthospitalization treatment of anorexia nervosa.
OBJECTIVE This study provides what the authors believe is the first empirical evaluation of cognitive behavior therapy as a posthospitalization treatment for anorexia nervosa in adults . METHOD After hospitalization , 33 patients with DSM-IV anorexia nervosa were r and omly assigned to 1 year of outpatient cognitive behavior therapy or nutritional counseling . RESULTS The group receiving nutritional counseling  relapsed significantly earlier and at a higher rate than the group receiving cognitive behavior therapy ( 53 % versus 22 % ) . The overall treatment failure rate ( relapse and dropping out combined ) was significantly lower for cognitive behavior therapy ( 22 % ) than for nutritional counseling ( 73 % ) . The criteria for " good outcome " were met by significantly more of the patients receiving cognitive behavior therapy ( 44 % ) than nutritional counseling ( 7 % ) . CONCLUSIONS Cognitive behavior therapy was significantly more effective than nutritional counseling in improving outcome and preventing relapse . To the authors ' knowledge , these data provide the first empirical documentation of the efficacy of any psychotherapy , and cognitive behavior therapy in particular , in posthospitalization care and relapse prevention of adult anorexia nervosa
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 .