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Benefits Of Binge-Eating Therapies Persist
A DGReview of :"Group-Analytic and Psychoeducational Therapies for Binge-Eating Disorder: An Exploratory Study of Efficacy and Persistence of Effects"
Psychotherapy Research
07/10/2002
By Robert Short
Group-analytic and psychoeducational therapy benefits among patients with binge-eating disorder persist for at least one year.
This was the finding of Dr Rossana Ciano and colleagues at the Clinica Psichiatrica, Dipartimento di Patologia e Medicina SC, Università di Udine, Italy, following a study into the efficacy of analytic psychotherapy and psychoeducation in two groups of patients.
The psychotherapeutic regimen consisted on group-analytic psychotherapy of 14 sessions over a 28-week period. The group psychoeducational intervention consisted of 10 sessions over a 10-week period. Follow-up assessments were at six months and 12 months.
The researchers said that at the end of treatment, most patients were without eating disorders and had a lower rate of binge episodes: "The psychoeducational group patients improved markedly in alexithymic traits related to the ability to describe feelings."
At the follow-up assessments, it was found that most patients were still without eating disorders and had had few binge episodes. The psychoeducational group patients continued to show amelioration on alexithymic traits. The analytic psychotherapy group patients showed a trend toward an improvement in personality traits related to the ability to be at ease when communicating with others.
Psychotherapy Research 2002;12:231-239
"Group-Analytic and Psychoeducational Therapies for Binge-Eating Disorder: An Exploratory Study of Efficacy and Persistence of Effects"
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