MacDonald DE, McFarlane T, Trottier K, et al. - The results demonstrated that individual cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) may be a more time- and cost-efficient approach to delivering maintenance treatment, although the treatments appeared similarly effective in helping patients maintain gains made in intensive treatment.

• Researchers recruited a total of 221 patients with eating disorders, and data were analyzed retrospectively.

• They used Cox regression to ascertain if treatment type predicted rate of return to clinically significant symptoms over the 12 months following inpatient or day treatment.

• According to the findings, intensive outpatient group vs individual CBT maintenance treatment did not prognosticate differential rate or trajectory of return to clinically significant symptoms in diagnostic subgroups and the overall sample.

• Changes in weight/shape concerns between end-of-inpatient or day treatment) and 6- or 12-month follow-up (after controlling for diagnosis) were not predicted by maintenance treatment type.