Interventions for improving psychological symptoms in binge eating disorder (BED) and loss of control (LOC) eating in childhood and adolescence: a systematic scoping review

Table 5 Diagrammatic synthesis of treatment modalities and the end-of-treatment impact on psychological symptoms in BED

	Outcome
*Treatment modality (no. of studies)**	binge eating episodes (OBE/SBE) / LOC eating	Depressive symptoms	Anxiety	Other mood concerns**	Self-esteem/QOL***	ED* psychopathology**	Remission from BED	Abstinence from BED
IPT (2)****	(✓)●	(✓) (✕)	(✓) (✕)	●(✓)	●●	●●	●●	●●
FB-IPT (1)	✓	✓	✓	●	●	●	●	●
DBT (2)	● ✓	✕ ●	✕ ●	✓ ●	●●	✓●	●●	●●
Individual CBT (2)	✓ ✓	✕ ✕	●●	●●	✕ ●	✓●	✓●	✓●
Group CBT (1)	✓	●	●	●	✓	●	●	●
Group schema therapy (1)	●	●	●	●	●	✓	●	●
Medication (1)	✓	●	●	●	●	●	✓	●

Key: ✓ suggestive of improvement/suggestive of improvement relative to control, ✕ not suggestive of improvement/ not suggestive of improvement relative to control, ·: not reported/assessed
^* Note: treatment modalities were adapted for each study, ^** Pre-meal tension and anger (IPT), negative affect (DBT), ^*** ED: Eating Disorder, QOL: Quality of life, ^****Only follow-up data was reported, results shown in brackets here for comparison, ^*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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