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. 2019 May 1;2019(5):CD004780. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004780.pub4

Bulik 2009.

Methods Randomised parallel assignment
Participants Inclusion Criteria:
  • Anorexia Nervosa

  • 18 years and older

  • BMI of 16 or higher

  • In a committed relationship with a partner for 1 year or longer and currently living together


Exclusion Criteria:
  • Alcohol or drug dependence in past year

  • Current significant suicidal ideation

  • Developmental disability that would impair the ability of the participant to benefit from the intervention

  • Psychosis

  • BMI less than 16

Interventions Intervention group 1
Description: CBCT. CBCT consists of 1‐hour weekly sessions between a couple and a therapist. In this programme, couples learn about ways to communicate about their relationship in the context of experiencing anorexia nervosa. CBCT focuses on couple‐specific skills such as communication and targets relationship domains such as exercise, body image and sexuality, eating together as a couple, and broader relationship concerns outside of anorexia nervosa
Length: 20 weeks
Intervention group 2
Description: Family supportive therapy
Couples meet once a week for an hour for couples therapy. Family supportive therapy is not manualised and is the standard form of care at the UNC Eating Disorders Programme
Length: 20 weeks
Outcomes Not provided
Notes clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00928109