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Table 11 Structural family therapy for children and adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa

From: Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders

Certainty assessment

Impact

Certainty

Importance

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

Recovery (assessed with: clinical impression), Weight Gain

 2

Case series

very serious a,b

not serious

not serious

not serious

none

Two large case series of 51 female adolescents total used structural family therapy. 38/51 (75%) were deemed recovered by clinical impression.

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

very serious a,b

not serious

not serious

not serious

none

One of these case series reported between 5 and 31 kg of weight gain with the treatment (n = 25).

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

Weight Gain (assessed with: kg)

 2

Case reports

very serious a,b

not serious

not serious

not serious

none

Two case reports (n = 2 both female) report weight restoration - one of these cases had co-morbid asthma.

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

  1. Explanations
  2. ano randomization
  3. bno control condition
  4. Bibliography:
  5. Case Series - Minuchin 1975 [86], Wallin 2002 [87]
  6. Case Reports - Combrinck-Graham 1974 [88], Liebman 1974 [89]