The effectiveness of a day program for the treatment of adolescent anorexia nervosa

Mandy Goldstein · Lorna Peters · Andrew Baillie · Patricia McVeagh · Gerri Minshall · Dianne Fitzjames

64 citations0/0 files storedInternational Journal of Eating Disorders

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Eating Disorders and Behaviors Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The risks of anorexia nervosa (AN) are well established. Despite its severity, little certainty exists for practitioners, with ethical and financial limitations yielding few controlled studies establishing effective treatments. Thus, other methods of establishing treatment effectiveness are necessary. This study presents preliminary results of an open clinical trial of a day program for adolescents with AN. METHOD: Participants were 26 anorectic females, 12-18 years, who completed the "Transition Program." RESULTS: Significant change emerged on measures of weight gain, and behavioral and attitudinal measures of eating pathology. Large effect sizes were evident for weight gain at 6 month follow-up. Preliminary trends suggest that treatment gains on these and other measures of eating pathology were maintained at 6 month follow-up. DISCUSSION: Preliminary results support day program treatment for adolescents with mild-moderately severe eating disorders. Present outcomes are discussed with respect to the dearth of efficacious treatment options for adolescents.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 64 citations exist upstream.

References

2000Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR)1982The Eating Attitudes Test: psychometric features and clinical correlates 1994The earth is round (p < .05).1982Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change.2003Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: a “transdiagnostic” theory and treatment 1991Eating Disorder Inventory-2 ; Pro-fessional Manual 1987An Evaluation of Family Therapy in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa 1998Enhancing motivation for change in treatment-resistant eating disorders

Cited by

2012Adapting family‐based therapy to a day hospital programme for adolescents with eating disorders: preliminary outcomes and trajectories of change 2020Targeting maladaptive overcontrol with radically open dialectical behaviour therapy in a day programme for adolescents with restrictive eating disorders: an uncontrolled case series

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.