[Summary text]
Study design: Randomized controlled trial
Study grouping:
Open Label:
Cluster RCT:
Baseline Characteristics
FBT
Individual therapy
Included criteria: Consecutively referred patients were invited to participate ifthey were 13–20 years of age, met DSM-IV criteria for bulimianervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified, and had atleast one “close other” to accompany them for “family treatment.”
Excluded criteria: We excluded patients with a body mass index below the10th percentile for age and sex (5), patients whose knowledge ofEnglish was insufficient to understand the treatment, and patientswith learning disability, severe mental illness, or substancedependence. We did not exclude patients taking antidepressantsprovided they had been on a stable dose for at least 4 weeks.
Intervention Characteristics
FBT
Individual therapy
Continuous:
Dichotomous:
Sponsorship source: Dr. Treasurereceives a consultancy fee from the Capio Hospital to provide carerworkshops. All other authors report no competing interests.Supported by grant 1206/88 from the Health Foundation, U.K., toDrs. Schmidt, Eisler, Treasure, Beecham, and Rabe-Hesketh. The authorsthank Dr. Rudolf Uher for helpful comments on the manuscript.
Country: United Kingdom
Setting: outpatient
Comments:
Authors name: Ulrike Schmidt
Institution: Section of Eating Disorders, Clinical Trials Unit, Centre for the Economics of Mental Health, and the Section of Family Therapy, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Email: u.schmidt@iop.kcl.ac.uk
Address: Dr. Schmidt, Section of Eating Disorders (PO59), Instituteof Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF, UK
Identification:
Participants:
Study design:
Baseline characteristics:
Intervention characteristics:
Pretreatment:
Continuous outcomes:
Dichotomous outcomes:
Adverse outcomes:
Selection bias (biased allocation to interventions) due to inadequate generation of a randomised sequence
Selection bias (biased allocation to interventions) due to inadequate concealment of allocations prior to assignment
Performance bias due to knowledge of the allocated interventions by participants and personnel during the study
Detection bias due to knowledge of the allocated interventions by outcome assessors
Attrition bias due to amount, nature or handling of incomplete outcome data
Reporting bias due to selective outcome reporting
Bias due to problems not covered elsewhere in the table