Table 41 Family-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: Absolute weight gain during admission in kg) | |||||||||
1 | Case Series | very seriousa | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | One case series including 37 patients. LOS in hospital was a mean of 20.6 weeks (SD = 13.6, range 3–58) in this study. Weight gain was reported as 7.5 kg (SD 4.4, range − 1.1 to 14.8 kg) | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |
Weight | |||||||||
2 | Case Reports | very serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Two case reports – LOS in hospital was 10 days in one case report and unclear in the second case report. A change in BMI from 16.32 to 17.5 (ie 82%TGW to 85.8%TGW) in one case report, and a change in BMI of 15.4 to 19.5 in the second case report. In the second case report the family received 8 sessions of family-based informed therapy via telepsychiatry as one parent and siblings were not local. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |