| Trial name or title |
Effectiveness of a Cognitive Behavioral Management Pilot Program in a sample of Brazilian adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa |
| Methods |
Clinical treatment trial, parallel, open, non‐randomized controlled with two arms. |
| Participants |
Adolescents aged 12 to 17 with Anorexia Nervosa with significant weight loss, marked by the decrease of at least a percentile below the expected for the age, based on the body mass index (BMI) curve for age, gender and compared to the patient's weight before disease onset |
| Interventions |
Cognitive‐Behavioral Psychotherapy delivered in groups; 24 90‐minute sessions. The patients also received psychiatric, nutritional and family treatment during the 6 months. Comparison group received psychiatric, nutritional and family treatment for 6 months without cognitive behavioral therapy. |
| Outcomes |
Weight recovery based on the adequacy or improvement of the percentile expected for the age verified by the growth curve of Body Mass Index for the age of the World Health Organization, associated with decreased symptoms of Eating Disorder evaluated by decreased scores on the Questionnaire of examination for eating disorders applied in the pre‐, post‐intervention and follow‐up. |
| Starting date |
2015‐02‐04 |
| Contact information |
bacy@uol.com.br |
| Notes |
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