December 7th, 2008
Parents Involved in Children`s Bulimia Treatment Double Success
Parents involved in their children`s bulimia
therapy may double the children`s percentage to overcome binge eating
after six months, according to American researchers.
The study was conducted at the University of Chicago and involved
eighty teenagers, aged twelve to nineteen, who suffer from bulimia
nervosa. Thirty-nine people were assigned to supportive psychotherapy
and forty one to family-based treatment.
The study`s results showed that forty percent of the participants who
had family-based treatment managed to stop binge eating and purging,
and only eighteen percent of those who had supportive psychotherapy.