Table 11 Structural family therapy 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 | |||
| Recovery (assessed with: clinical impression), Weight Gain | |||||||||
| 2 | Case series | very serious a,b | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Two large case series of 51 female adolescents total used structural family therapy. 38/51 (75%) were deemed recovered by clinical impression. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |
| very serious a,b | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | One of these case series reported between 5 and 31 kg of weight gain with the treatment (n = 25). | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL | ||
| Weight Gain (assessed with: kg) | |||||||||
| 2 | Case reports | very serious a,b | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Two case reports (n = 2 both female) report weight restoration - one of these cases had co-morbid asthma. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | CRITICAL |