Wallis A, Miskovic-Wheatley J, Madden S, et al. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Vol 23, Issue 4, pp. 592 – 600. First Published May 20, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104518775145

Although it has long been known that early response to Family Based Treatment (FBT) is a positive predictive factor for young peoples’ recovery from anorexia nervosa, it has been uncertain whether persisting with FBT yields any additional benefit. This Australian study demonstrates that young people who received ongoing FBT had less days of hospitalisation (12.51 days vs. 71.93 days if they switched to alternative treatment) and that almost a third of those who continued FBT achieved remission, more than those in the comparator group.

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