Table 23 Yoga for eating disorders
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 | |||
| Psychological Symptoms (assessed with: EDE), weight, anxiety, depression | |||||||||
| 1 | randomised trials | not serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | In this RCT 50 girls and 4 boys were randomized to yoga plus standard treatment, or standard treatment alone.. There were no differences in weight between the yoga group and the no yoga group at the end of the study. | ⨁⨁⨁⨁ HIGH | CRITICAL |
| not serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | The yoga group demonstrated greater decreases in EDE score at 12 weeks. | ⨁⨁⨁⨁ HIGH | CRITICAL | ||
| not serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Anxiety scores improved over time in the yoga group and were significantly improved compared to the no yoga group. | ⨁⨁⨁⨁ HIGH | CRITICAL | ||
| not serious | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | Depression scores were significantly improved in the yoga group compared to the control group. | ⨁⨁⨁⨁ HIGH | CRITICAL | ||