A Study on Online Intervention for Early Childhood Eating Disorders during COVID-19.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
; 19(6)2022 03 20.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1760612
ABSTRACT
Eating disorders are among the most common clinical manifestations in children, and they are frequently connected with maternal psychopathological risk, internalizing/externalizing problems in children, and poor quality of mother-child feeding exchanges. During the COVID-19 lockdown, in person assessment and intervention were impeded due to the indications of maintaining interpersonal distancing and by limits to travel. Therefore, web-based methods were adopted to meet patients' needs. In this study N = 278 participants completed the SCL-90/R and the CBCL to examine the psychopathological symptoms of mothers and children (age of the children = 24 months); moreover, the dyads were video-recorded during feeding and followed an online video-feedback based intervention. Maternal emotional state, interactive conflict, food refusal in children, and dyadic affective state all improved considerably, as did offspring internalizing/externalizing problems and mothers' depression, anxiety, and obsession-compulsion symptoms. This study showed that video-feedback web-based intervention might be employed successfully to yield considerable beneficial effects.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Internet-Based Intervention
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Ijerph19063696
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