Table 8 FBT plus CBT for children and adolescents with Bulimia 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 | |||
| Binge Purge Frequency (assessed with: frequency diary), Psychological symptoms (EDE) | |||||||||
| 1 | Case control | serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | One 15 yo female treated with FBT alone, compared to one 15 yo female treated with FBT and CBT (1 h sessions were split into 30 min of FBT and 30 min of CBT). Both improved significantly - BP episodes decreased from 10 to 12 episodes per week to 0. | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | IMPORTANT |
| serious a | not serious | not serious | not serious | none | EDE scores were collected at end of this CBT plus FBT compared to FBT alone study (n = 2). EDE scores were similar in these two patients and demonstrated normal scores (in remission). | ⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW | IMPORTANT | ||