Table 18 Cognitive behavioural therapy for ARFID
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 | |||
| Avoidance of Food (assessed with: clinical impression) | |||||||||
| 12 | Case Reports | very serious a,b | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | 28 cases are described in which various cognitive behavioural strategies including systematic desensitization (17), hypnosis (6) and EMDR (4) were used. Patients were aged 3 to 16 years (12 male, 16 female). Improvement in food avoidance behaviour was reported in all cases. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | IMPORTANT |
| Telemedicine - Increased food variety (assessed with: bites of nonpreferred food) | |||||||||
| 1 | Case Report | very serious a,b | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Case report with CBT delivered by teleconsultation to parents of 8 year old boy with ARFID. Increased frequency of bites of nonpreferred food was noted. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | IMPORTANT |