The First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders ‐ Upscaled study: Clinical outcomes

• DOI: 10.1111/eip.13139
• Publication Date: 2021-03-29T23:53:37Z
• Authors: Amelia Austin; Michaela Flynn; James Shearer; Mike Long; Karina Allen; Victoria A. Mount...; Danielle Glennon; Nina Grant; Amy Brown; Mary Franklin‐Smith; Monique Schelhase; William Rhys Jones; Gabrielle Brady; Nicole Nunes; Frances Connan; Kate Mahony; Lucy Serpell; Ulrike Schmidt
• Keywords: Adult; Anorexia Nervosa; Adolescent; Early Intervention in the Real World; bulimia nervosa; anorexia nervosa; 3. Good health; Feeding and Eating Disorders; early intervention; Young Adult; 03 medical and health sciences; Patient Admission; 0302 clinical medicine; eating disorder; emerging adulthood; Early Intervention, Educational; Humans; Retrospective Studies

First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders (FREED) is a service model and care pathway emerging adults aged 16 to 25-years with recent onset eating disorder (ED) of <3 years. A previous single-site study suggests that FREED significantly improves clinical outcomes compared treatment-as-usual (TAU). The present (FREED-Up) assessed the scalability FREED. multi-centre quasi-experimental pre-post design was used, comparing patient before after implementation in participating services.