Three Psychotherapies for Anorexia Nervosa: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Abstract

The finding that nonspecific supportive clinical management was superior to more specialized psychotherapies was opposite to the primary hypothesis and challenges assumptions about the effective ingredients of successful treatments for anorexia nervosa.

Are obsessive‐compulsive personality traits associated with a poor outcome in anorexia nervosa? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and naturalistic outcome studies

“…6 In the remaining studies, either predictors of outcome were not assessed, assessed but not reported, 22,30,32 or no or other more significant predictors of outcome were found. 23,26,27,29,31 In two of these studies 23,31 it was unclear whether personality variables were included in outcome analyses.…”

Evaluating the efficacy of a self-guided Web-based CBT intervention for reducing cancer-distress: a randomised controlled trial

“…Only one study has examined therapist adherence in a RCT of treatments for AN. 8,9 McIntosh et al 9 used a modified version of the CSPRS (CSPRS-AN) to investigate adherence to, and differentiation between Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Specialist Supportive Clinical management (SSCM). Results indicated that the 90-item CSPRS-AN was able to differentiate treatments reliably, and no differences in therapist adherence were found.…”

Keynote Lecture: treating eating disorders

“…However, in RCTs CBT is superior to nutritional counselling in relapse prevention, 13 but inferior to non-specific supportive clinical management. 14 However, methodological problems -specifically poor acceptance and high dropout rates (around 46 per cent) -defeated one potentially valuable study assessing CBT. The authors suggested that it is premature to conduct RCTs of CBT for adults with anorexia nervosa until fur ther research identifies and resolves the reasons underlying the poor acceptance and high dropout rates.…”