User satisfaction with family-based inpatient treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa: retrospective views of patients and parents

Halvorsen, Inger; Rø, Øyvind

doi:10.1186/s40337-019-0242-6

Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 2 Perception of the contact with the therapists/staff members who participated in the treatment (POT) by patients and their parents

From: User satisfaction with family-based inpatient treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa: retrospective views of patients and parents

	Mean score ± SD			Patient/mother^c		Patient/father^d		Mother/father^e
	Patient N = 34	Mother N = 40	Father N = 20	P-value^f	Effect size^g	P-value^f	Effect size^g	P-value^f	Effect size^g
Mean POT^a score (item 1–11)	3.6 ± 1.2	4.6 ± 0.9	4.8 ± 0.7	< 0.001	0.9	< 0.001	1.2	0.227	0.2
Do you think that the therapist(s)^b:
1. Understood your problems?	3.3 ± 1.4	4.5 ± 1.0	4.5 ± 0.6	< 0.001	1.0	0.007	1.1	0.751	0.0
2. Received you well?	4.1 ± 1.4	4.8 ± 0.9	4.9 ± 0.8	0.002	0.6	0.001	0.7	0.261	0.1
3. Respected you as a person?	4.2 ± 1.5	4.9 ± 1.1	5.2 ± 0.8	0.002	0.5	0.003	0.8	0.264	0.3
4. Let you to talk about what was important to you?	4.1 ± 1.6	4.7 ± 1.1	5.0 ± 0.6	0.018	0.4	0.013	0.7	0.164	0.3
5. Listened to you?	4.1 ± 1.5	4.6 ± 1.2	5.0 ± 0.7	0.103	0.4	0.002	0.8	0.188	0.4
6. Were able to help you/your daughter/son?	3.6 ± 1.6	4.1 ± 1.3	4.2 ± 1.3	0.022	0.3	0.017	0.4	0.751	0.1
7. Gave your parents/you enough help to support you/your daughter/son in overcoming the ED?	3.0 ± 1.4	4.6 ± 1.2	4.7 ± 0.9	< 0.001	1.2	0.001	1.4	0.387	0.1
8. Agreed with you on the treatment goal?	2.9 ± 1.5	4.8 ± 1.0	4.7 ± 1.0	< 0.001	1.5	< 0.001	1.4	0.721	0.1
9. Agreed with you on how the treatment should be?	2.9 ± 1.4	4.4 ± 1.0	4.5 ± 0.9	< 0.001	1.2	< 0.001	1.4	0.586	0.1
10. Had sufficient knowledge of ED and knew what they were doing?	3.8 ± 1.6	4.9 ± 1.1	4.9 ± 1.0	< 0.001	0.8	0.002	0.8	1	0.0
11. Valued your own efforts in overcoming the ED?	3.6 ± 1.7	4.7 ± 1.2	4.8 ± 1.0	0.001	0.7	0.001	0.9	0.301	0.1
For parents only:
12. Were able to help you as a mother/father?		4.1 ± 1.2	4.3 ± 0.8					0.818	0.2
13. Gave you enough help to support each other as parents?		3.9 ± 1.4	4.5 ± 1.1					0.302	0.5

^a) Perception of therapists, ^b)reply options: never, seldom, sometimes, often, very often, always. Possible range:1–6, more satisfied the higher score, ^c) 31 pairs, ^d) 12 pairs: n = 24, e⁾ 18 pairs,, ^f)paired samples t-tests, ^g)Cohen’s d (small: 0.2, medium: 0.5, large: 0.8)

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