The Effectiveness of Attachment Based Therapy on the Treatment of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder in Binging Disorder and obesity girls

Document Type : 78

Author

• zahra dashtbozorgi

Abstract

Background and objective: Today's, Overweight and obesity in many children is an important risk for their physical and mental health. There are many treatment for them. The present study aims to investigate the efficacy of attachment-based therapy in the treatment of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder among the female students of primary school in Ahvaz.
Methods: This is an empirical study with pretest-posttest-follow up and control group. The study population consisted of elementary school female students with attachment problems who had an obesity and binge eating disorder.  Target samples were 32 female individuals which purposive sampling was used to select them. The evaluation implements include Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire, Children’s Binge Eating Disorder Scale, and The Clinical Impairment Assessment Questioner. Two groups have been made (experimental and control), then mothers have participated in 10 learning sessions according to their children's group. After the implementation of the therapies, a post test has been done. After 45 days, a follow up test has also been done.
Results: The result of the covariate analysis shows that the mean of post- test  and follow up scores of Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder symptoms in the experimental group is significantly lower than that of the control group (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The attachment-based treatment can be used as the method of intervention to reduce disorders caused by eating in children with eating disorders and obesity.
 

Keywords

• Attachment-based Therapy
• Clinical Impairment due to eating disorder
• Binge eating disorder
• Obesity

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