title: Collaborative professional education for carers of those with eating disorders.
abstract: This paper describes the effectiveness of a 6-hour education programme to provide skills, knowledge and support to carers about how to best support patients with eating disorders. Based on a philosophy of mutual and ongoing support and learning, this programme brought together community groups of professionals, carers and advocates to present and participate in the programme. Pretest and post-test measures of the programme's effectiveness were administered to 81 participants (N = 81) across multiple-programme presentations in different locations in the USA. A paired form of analysis showed significant effect sizes on carers' knowledge, skill and understanding of eating disorders.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA. cris@lightlink.com
authors.forename: Cris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Haltom
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Potter
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires