Change in eating disorder symptoms following pediatric obesity treatment.
Int J Eat Disord
; 52(3): 299-303, 2019 03.
Article
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| ID: mdl-30638271
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether children with overweight or obesity participating in an evidence-based treatment, family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) for obesity, or a parent-only variant of FBT (PBT), experience an increase of eating disorder (ED) symptoms during and following treatment.METHOD:
Children (N = 150) participating in a randomized controlled trial of FBT or PBT completed measures of EDs attitudes and behaviors at baseline, following 6-months of treatment, 6 months, and 18 months after treatment.RESULTS:
Linear-mixed effects models suggest that ED attitudes did not significantly increase. Rather, significant decreases of shape, weight, and eating concerns were shown following treatment. Loss of control over eating significantly decreased over treatment and follow-up. No participant endorsed purging at any time point.DISCUSSION:
Results confirm the hypothesis that ED symptoms do not increase after participating in FBT or a FBT-based treatment. These findings should help assuage fears of parents that enrolling their child will exacerbate ED symptoms and aid children to access evidence-based treatments that may help reduce significant physical and psychosocial complications of childhood obesity.Key words
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Behavior Therapy
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Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Overweight
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Pediatric Obesity
Type of study:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Limits:
Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Int J Eat Disord
Year:
2019
Type:
Article