A Study on Online Intervention for Early Childhood Eating Disorders during COVID-19.
Silvia CiminoCarlos A AlmenaraLuca CernigliaPublished in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2022)
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.
Keyphrases
- randomized controlled trial
- young adults
- mental health
- sleep quality
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- sars cov
- healthcare
- depressive symptoms
- body mass index
- newly diagnosed
- pregnant women
- birth weight
- skeletal muscle
- risk assessment
- climate change
- insulin resistance
- social media
- human health
- weight loss
- pregnancy outcomes
- quality improvement
- weight gain