Does inpatient weight restoration prior to outpatient family therapy improve outcomes in adolescent anorexia nervosa?

本研究探讨了再进食住院时间长短对神经性厌食症患者治疗效果的影响。研究对象将包括60名10至18岁的儿童和青少年，他们在韦斯特米德儿童医院接受神经性厌食症的医疗治疗。本研究旨在随机分配并比较接受医学稳定治疗后接受门诊家庭治疗的神经性厌食症青少年与接受完全体重恢复后接受门诊家庭治疗的青少年的结果。将在入院、医院治疗结束、门诊家庭治疗结束时以及治疗结束后6个月和12个月测量身体和心理结果。

This study examines the effect of length of hospital admission for refeeding, prior to manualised outpatient family therapy on outcomes for patients with anorexia nervosa. Subjects will include sixty children and adolescents aged 10 to 18 years admitted to the Children's Hospital at Westmead for medical management of anorexia nervosa. This study aims to randomly allocate and compare outcomes between adolescents with anorexia nervosa admitted for medical stabilisation followed by outpatient family therapy versus adolescents admitted for full weight restoration followed by outpatient family therapy. Physical and psychological outcomes will be measured at admission to hospital, at the end of the hospital treatment and at the completion of outpatient family therapy and 6 and 12 months after the completion of treatment.