. 2020 Feb 1;8:4. doi: 10.1186/s40337-020-0277-8

Table 45.

Psychodynamic based inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa

Certainty assessment	Impact	Certainty	Importance
Change in weight (assessed with: Pre/post measures of weight)
2	Case Reports	very serious ^a	serious ^b	not serious	not serious	none	Two reports of 6 patients total. LOS varied between 1.5 months and 5 months. Patients were reported to have gained between 1.3 kg/month to 6 kg/month while admitted.	⨁◯◯◯ VERY LOW	CRITICAL

Certainty assessment

Impact

Certainty

Importance

№ of studies

Study design

Risk of bias

Inconsistency

Indirectness

Imprecision

Other considerations

Change in weight (assessed with: Pre/post measures of weight)

Case Reports

very serious ^a

serious ^b

not serious

none

Two reports of 6 patients total. LOS varied between 1.5 months and 5 months. Patients were reported to have gained between 1.3 kg/month to 6 kg/month while admitted.

⨁◯◯◯

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

Explanations

^aCase reports only, no comparison/control

^bLarge variation in results, likely due to individual factors of patients described in studies

Bibliography:

Case Reports - Kronenberg 1994 [231], Groen 1966 [230]