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Telemedicine in Eating Disorder Treatment: Systematic Review.

Juan Antonio Blasco Amaro¹, Agnieszka Dobrzynska¹, Rebeca Isabel-Gómez¹

¹AETSA, Andalusian HTA Office, Fundación Progreso y Salud, Seville, Spain.

JMIR Mental Health

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Summary

Telemedicine shows promise in improving adherence and monitoring for eating disorder (ED) patients when used alongside traditional therapies. While safe and effective, further high-quality research is needed due to the limited number of studies.

Keywords:

EDNOS anorexia nervosa binge eating disorder bulimia nervosa eating disorder not otherwise specified eating disorders telehealth telemedicine teletherapy

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Area of Science:

Digital Health Interventions
Psychiatry
Clinical Psychology

Background:

Telemedicine offers a novel approach to enhance patient adherence and monitoring in eating disorder (ED) treatment.
Integrating digital health tools complements traditional face-to-face cognitive therapies.
Assessing the safety and effectiveness of telemedicine is crucial given its increasing use.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of telemedicine as an adjunct to face-to-face cognitive therapies for patients with EDs.
To assess telemedicine's role in promoting adherence and monitoring in ED patient care.

Main Methods:

A comprehensive literature search was conducted across multiple databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, etc.) in December 2024.
Systematic reviews, synthesis reports, and meta-analyses on telemedicine for EDs were identified.
Two researchers critically appraised the selected reviews using the AMSTAR-2 tool to assess risk of bias.

Main Results:

Only 5 systematic reviews met the inclusion criteria from an initial 1004 studies.
Common telemedicine channels included email, vodcasts, smartphone apps, and SMS text messaging.
Interventions were found to be safe, motivating, improve patient-physician communication, retention rates, and reduce ED symptoms.

Conclusions:

Telemedicine demonstrates positive potential as a complementary approach in ED treatment.
Findings should be interpreted with caution due to the limited number and quality of existing systematic reviews.
Further rigorous research is necessary to solidify the role of telemedicine in ED care.