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Table 45 Psychodynamic based inpatient treatment 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

Change in weight (assessed with: Pre/post measures of weight)

 2

Case Reports

very serious a

serious b

not serious

not serious

none

Two reports of 6 patients total. LOS varied between 1.5 months and 5 months. Patients were reported to have gained between 1.3 kg/month to 6 kg/month while admitted.

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

  1. Explanations
  2. aCase reports only, no comparison/control
  3. bLarge variation in results, likely due to individual factors of patients described in studies
  4. Bibliography:
  5. Case Reports - Kronenberg 1994 [231], Groen 1966 [230]