From: Canadian practice guidelines for the treatment of children and adolescents with eating disorders
Certainty assessment | Impact | Certainty | Importance | ||||||
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№ of studies | Study design | Risk of bias | Inconsistency | Indirectness | Imprecision | Other considerations | |||
RCT - Change in Weight (assessed with: Change in BMI per week) | |||||||||
1 | randomised trials | serious a | not serious | not serious | serious b | none | One study randomized patients with AN-R and depressive symptoms (> 17 on HDRS) admitted to CBT-based inpatient treatment to receive either daily 30 min BLT + inpatient treatment (n = 12) × 6 weeks or inpatient treatment only × 6 weeks (n = 12). Patients in both groups had a significant change in their BMI during 6 week study, however change from baseline was statistically significant by week 3 (p = 0.038) in BLT group vs only significant change from baseline at week 6 (p = 0.048) in TAU group. | ⨁⨁◯◯ LOW | CRITICAL |