Key result
Treatments for chronic eating disorders lack evidence-based findings, as fundamental studies defining chronicity and standardized treatment approaches do not currently exist.
Population
Eating disorder patients who fail to change over protracted periods of time
Design
Review
Authors
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No evidence-based treatments exist for chronic eating disorders; leaves open the need for studies defining chronicity and testing standardized interventions.
There is a critical need for empirical studies to define chronicity and develop evidence-based treatments for patients with chronic eating disorders.
Wonderlich et al. (2012) conducted a review in Chronic eating disorders. Treatment and management of chronic eating disorders was evaluated. Treatments for chronic eating disorders lack evidence-based findings, as fundamental studies defining chronicity and standardized treatment approaches do not currently exist.
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