Behaviour therapy in anorexia nervosa.
In three collaborating hospitals, 81 anorexia nervosa patients were randomly assigned to behaviour modification or its absence and followed over 35 days. There was no overall significant difference in weight gain in the two groups except in a subset of patients: those with no prior out-patient treatments.
D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000628:therapy*; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D001835:Body Weight; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D012056:Reinforcement, Social; D012934:Social Isolation; D013997:Time Factors