Table 14 Emotion focused family therapy compared to cognitive behavioural therapy for children and adolescents with Bulimia 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 | |||
Binge Purge Frequency (assessed with: frequency), Psychological Symptoms (assessed with: EDI) | |||||||||
1 | randomised trials | not serious | not serious | not serious | seriousa | none | n = 13 adolescents with BN randomly assigned to EFFT or CBT. No differences in terms of binge purge frequency at end of study. | ⨁⨁⨁◯ MODERATE | CRITICAL |
not serious | not serious | not serious | seriousa | none | No differences in terms of psychological symptoms at end of study. Very small sample size. | ⨁⨁⨁◯ MODERATE | CRITICAL | ||