Comparative efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the acute treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: study protocol for the systematic review and network metaanalysis of individual data

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dc.contributor.author Wade, Tracey Diane
dc.contributor.author Treasure, Janet
dc.contributor.author Schmidt, Ulrike H
dc.contributor.author Fairburn, Christopher G
dc.contributor.author Byrne, Susan M
dc.contributor.author Zipfel, Stephan
dc.contributor.author Cipriani, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned 2017-08-28T02:27:08Z
dc.date.available 2017-08-28T02:27:08Z
dc.date.issued 2017-08-02
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dc.description.abstract Background Outpatient treatment studies of anorexia nervosa (AN) are notoriously hard to conduct given the ambivalence of the patient group and high drop-out rates. It is therefore not surprising that previous meta-analyses of pharmacological and psychological treatments for outpatient treatment of adult AN have proved to be inconclusive. Network meta-analysis (NMA) has the potential to overcome the limitations of pairwise meta-analysis, as this approach can compare multiple treatments using both direct comparisons of interventions within randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and indirect comparisons across trials based on a common comparator. To date there is no published example of this approach with eating disorders and the current study provides a protocol which will use NMA to advance knowledge about what outpatient therapy works best for which patients with AN by conducting both direct and indirect comparisons of different treatments and the moderating variables. Methods Searches of electronic data bases will be supplemented with manual searches for published, unpublished and ongoing RCTs in international registries, and clinical trials registries of regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies. Two reviewers will independently extract the data and where possible we will access individual data in order to examine moderators of treatment. Two primary outcomes will be selected: changes to body mass index and changes to global eating disorder psychopathology. The secondary outcome is the total number of patients who, at 12-month post-randomization, attained over the previous 28 day period: (i) BMI > 18.5, and (ii) global eating disorder psychopathology to within 1 SD of community norms. We will also provide a statistical evaluation of consistency, the agreement between direct and indirect evidence. Results Descriptive statistics across all eligible trials will be provided along with a network diagram, where the size of the nodes will reflect the amount of evidence accumulated for each treatment. We will use a contribution matrix that describes the percentage contribution of each direct meta-analysis to the entire body of evidence. Discussion Findings will make a major contribution to the literature by summarising individual data across rapidly accumulating outpatient trials of AN using state of the art NMA methodology. en
dc.identifier.citation Wade, T. D., Treasure, J., Schmidt, U., Fairburn, C. G., Byrne, S., Zipfel, S., & Cipriani, A. (2017). Comparative efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the acute treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: study protocol for the systematic review and network meta-analysis of individual data. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-017-0153-3 en
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-017-0153-3 en
dc.identifier.issn 2050-2974
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2328/37439
dc.language.iso en
dc.oaire.license.condition.license CC-BY
dc.publisher BioMed Central en
dc.rights © The Author(s). 2017 en
dc.rights.holder The Author(s). en
dc.subject Network meta-analysis en
dc.subject Anorexia nervosa en
dc.subject Outpatient treatment en
dc.title Comparative efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the acute treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: study protocol for the systematic review and network metaanalysis of individual data en
dc.type Article en
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