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

Table 60.

CBT-based day treatment for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa

Certainty assessment	Impact	Certainty	Importance
Change in Weight (assessed with: Pre/post measures of weight)
1	Case Series	serious ^a	not serious	not serious	serious ^b	none	One study, including 42 patients. Unclear reasons for patients being referred to the program. Mean duration of illness prior to admission to this program was 2.40 years (SD = 2.02). LOS in Day Treatment was a mean of 22.2 weeks (range 0–52 weeks). Patients gained weight, with a mean increase of 5.37 kg or BMI increase of 1.87 kg/m over the course of treatment. It was noted the increase in weight was correlated with the number of months in program (0.23, p < 0.01), EDI-DT (− 4.90, p < 0.001), EDI-BD (− 3.56, p < 0.001) and Motivational Stages of Change (6.15, p < 0.001). Of note only 38 completed 2 months, 25 completed 4 months and 9 completed 6 months -- unclear how many were discharged due to improved clinical presentation vs deterioration or inability to meet program requirements.	⨁◯◯◯ 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 Series

serious ^a

not serious

serious ^b

none

One study, including 42 patients. Unclear reasons for patients being referred to the program. Mean duration of illness prior to admission to this program was 2.40 years (SD = 2.02). LOS in Day Treatment was a mean of 22.2 weeks (range 0–52 weeks). Patients gained weight, with a mean increase of 5.37 kg or BMI increase of 1.87 kg/m over the course of treatment. It was noted the increase in weight was correlated with the number of months in program (0.23, p < 0.01), EDI-DT (− 4.90, p < 0.001), EDI-BD (− 3.56, p < 0.001) and Motivational Stages of Change (6.15, p < 0.001). Of note only 38 completed 2 months, 25 completed 4 months and 9 completed 6 months -- unclear how many were discharged due to improved clinical presentation vs deterioration or inability to meet program requirements.

⨁◯◯◯

VERY LOW

CRITICAL

Explanations

^aObservational study with no comparison or control group

^bConfidence intervals not reported

Bibliography:

Case Series - Green 2015 [280]