Does family-based treatment reduce the need for hospitalization in adolescent anorexia nervosa?

ABSTRACT Objective We examined the timing and number of days of hospitalization during the course of treatment, hospitalization effects on outcome, and predictors and moderators of the use of hospitalization in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). Method Data used in this study were collected fro...

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Published in:The International journal of eating disorders 2016-09, Vol.49 (9), p.891-894
Main Authors: Lock, James, Agras, W. Stewart, Bryson, S.W., Brandt, Harry, Halmi, Katherine A., Kaye, Walter, Wilfley, Denise, Woodside, Blake, Pajarito, Sarah, Jo, Booil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
adolescents
Anorexia
anorexia nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa - psychology
Anorexia Nervosa - therapy
Body Weight
Child
Depressive Disorder - complications
Eating disorders
family therapy
Family Therapy - methods
Female
hospitalization
Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Obsessive Behavior
Remission Induction
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:ABSTRACT Objective We examined the timing and number of days of hospitalization during the course of treatment, hospitalization effects on outcome, and predictors and moderators of the use of hospitalization in adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). Method Data used in this study were collected from 158 adolescents (ages 12 to 18 years of age) who met DSM‐IVTR criteria for AN (exclusive of the amenorrhea criteria) randomized to receive either Family Based Treatment (FBT) or Systemic Family Therapy (SyFT) in a 7 site study. Results The trajectory of hospital day use is similar in the first 5 weeks irrespective of treatment allocation. However, days of hospitalization continued to increase throughout SyFT but leveled off in FBT after ∼5 weeks of treatment. Early hospitalization was a negative predictor for improvements in percent weight change for both treatment groups (t(1)=2.6, p = 0.011). Co‐morbid psychopathology predicted early hospital use in both treatments. Higher levels of eating related obsessions and depression moderated hospitalization rates suggesting that FBT reduces early hospitalization rates compared to SyFT for these subgroups. Discussion These data support and extend findings from previous studies by identifying patterns of hospital use, and predictors and moderators of treatment effect for early hospitalization use in adolescent AN. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.(Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:891–894)
ISSN:0276-3478
1098-108X
DOI:10.1002/eat.22536