Table 61 Behaviour therapy based day treatment for children with ARFID
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 | |||
Change in eating behaviours/intake (assessed with: Pre/post measures of intake) | |||||||||
2 | Case Reports | very serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Two case reports, patients were 4 yrs. (fear of choking) and 8 yrs. (emetophobia). LOS in DTP were 9 days and 7 days respectively. At end of treatment the patients had increased their intake. The 4 yo was no longer supplement dependent and accepting 30 new foods. The 8 yo had increased her intake from NPO to meeting her daily nutritional needs. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |