title: Parental strategies used in the family meal session of family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa: Links with treatment outcomes.
abstract: Examine relationships between parental mealtime strategies used in the family meal session of family-based treatment (FBT) and adolescent outcomes at EOT (session 20).
  
  
  
  Eighteen families with an adolescent receiving FBT-AN participated. Parental strategies during videoed family meals were assessed using a family mealtime coding system. Change scores were calculated for both adolescent %EBW and EDE scores.
  
  
  
  Increased use of parental direct and non-direct eating prompts during the family meal was associated with greater adolescent weight gain at EOT. Use of parental mealtime strategies was not associated with any significant change in adolescent eating psychopathology at EOT.
  
  
  
  Parental verbal eating prompts during the family meal may be effective in promoting short-term weight gain. During the family meal session, parents should be encouraged to maintain a direct focus on their adolescent child's eating behaviour which may assist their child with food consumption and potential weight gain. Further research examining food-based interactions among parents and their adolescent child with AN is needed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.(Int J Eat Disord 2017; 50:433-436).
authors.affiliation: Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
authors.forename: Hannah J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: White
authors.affiliation: Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Haycraft
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Sloane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rhodes
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miskovic-Wheatley
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wallis
authors.affiliation: Eating Disorder Service, The Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kohn
authors.affiliation: WMG University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.|University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004435:Eating / Q000523:psychology; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062407:Meals; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015430:Weight Gain
keywords: adolescent anorexia nervosa; family-based treatment; parental feeding strategies; treatment outcomes; weight gain