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Table 1 Scoping review eligibility criteria

From: Treatment outcomes for adolescent bulimia nervosa: a systematic scoping review of quantitative findings

 

Included

Excluded

Publication type

Peer-reviewed articles

Book chapters

Dissertations

Published abstracts

Language

English

Non-english Language

Study Objectives

Investigates the impact of an intervention on adolescent bulimia nervosa outcomes, including:

Explicit focus on eating disorder outcomes (e.g., formal outcome measures, frequency of disordered eating/compensatory behaviours)

Explicit focus on comorbid symptoms

Explicit focus on parent and family outcomes

 

Methodology/Design

Any quantitative experimental design

Any date

Must include adequately described methodology appropriate to research question

Must include quantitative measures of the relationship between intervention and eating disorder outcomes

Must include a measure of eating disorder symptoms pre and post treatment

Qualitative study design

Systematic or scoping reviews

Meta-analyses

Case report design

Satisfaction or acceptability data only

No data collection methodology or analysis reported

Case series without reported means

Sample

Children and Adolescents (up to 25 years old)

Formal diagnosis of either Bulimia Nervosa or eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS) or Other Specified Feeding and Eating Disorder (OSFED)-BN type

Any treatment setting

Sample aged under 25 but specifically exclude adolescent cohort i.e. young adults (18–25 year old’s) only

Multi-diagnostic adolescent eating disorder samples where data are not reported separately per diagnosis

Mixed adolescent and adult studies where data are not reported separately for adolescents