We need to be more critical toward digital interventions for eating disorders

• Verfasst von: Bauer, Stephanie [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Moessner, Markus [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: We need to be more critical toward digital interventions for eating disorders
• Titelzusatz: a commentary on McClure et al (2023)
• Verf.angabe: Stephanie Bauer PhD, Markus Moessner, PhD
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: 21 December 2023
• Umfang: 3 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 22.02.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: The international journal of eating disorders
• Ort Quelle: New York, NY : Wiley, 1981
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2023), Seite 1-3
• ISSN Quelle: 1098-108X
• DOI: doi:10.1002/eat.24119
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Ergänzung zu: McClure, Zoe: Predictors, mediators, and moderators of response to digital interventions for eating disorders: a systematic review, in: International journal of eating disorders |(DOI)https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24078
• Sach-SW: digital interventions
• Sach-SW: e-mental health
• Sach-SW: eating disorders
• Sach-SW: moderators
• Sach-SW: predictors of treatment outcome
• K10plus-PPN: 1881488624

Abstract

Over the past two decades, numerous digital interventions (also referred to as "e-mental health" interventions) have been developed for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and several meta-analyses have summarized the existing evidence on the efficacy and effectiveness of such interventions. Based on the present systematic review of McClure and Colleagues, the question of how and for whom digital interventions for eating disorders actually work, remains unanswered. In the absence of reliable mediators and moderators of outcome, priorities for future research are discussed (e.g., a need for more rigorous RCTs with credible comparators). The resulting research agenda is expansive. However, even though this process will take time and might seem slow (especially, in contrast to the rapidity of technological developments), we should not accept a lowering of the quality bar in research on digital interventions compared to other intervention research.