Relapse Prevention & Aftercare (WP4)

The aim of this package is to develop and evaluate step-down internet delivered care programs for patients with AN, BN and/ or their carers.

The team in Prague develops an internet-based platform to distress/relieve primary caregivers of patients with an ED. Spefically they conduct a randomised wait list trial to investigate the efficacy of psychologist-guided chat sessions on primary caregivers burden.
Study: The Efficacy of Psychologists Guided Chat-Groups on Caregivers’ Subjective Burden of Patients with an Eating Disorder

The Budapest team develops a specific version of an  internet delivered support program for patients with bulimic symptomatology and conducts a waiting list control randomized controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of this stepped treatment approach compared with treatment as usual alone.
Study: Efficacy of an internet delivered support program for patients with bulimic symptomatology