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Adapting and adopting highly specialized pediatric eating disorder treatment to virtual care: a protocol for an implementation study in the COVID-19 context.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted individuals with eating disorders; resulting in increased symptoms, as well as feelings of isolation and anxiety. To conform with social distancing requirements, outpatient eating disorder treatment in Canada is being delivered virtually, but a lack of direction surrounding this change creates challenges for practitioners, patients, and families. As a result, there is an urgent need to not only adapt evidence-based care, including family-based treatment (FBT), to virtual formats, but to study its implementation in eating disorder programs. We propose to study the initial adaptation and adoption of virtual family-based treatment (vFBT) with the ultimate goal of improving access to services for youth with eating disorders.

Year of Publication
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2021
Journal
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Implementation science communications
Volume
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2
Issue
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1
Number of Pages
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38
Date Published
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2021
URL
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https://implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43058-021-00143-8
DOI
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10.1186/s43058-021-00143-8
Short Title
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Implement Sci Commun
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