A Study on Online Intervention for Early Childhood Eating Disorders during COVID-19.
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| Abstract | 
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              Eating disorders are among the most common clinical manifestations in children, and they are frequently connected with maternal psychopathological risk, internalizing/externalizing problems in children, and poor quality of mother-child feeding exchanges. During the COVID-19 lockdown, in person assessment and intervention were impeded due to the indications of maintaining interpersonal distancing and by limits to travel. Therefore, web-based methods were adopted to meet patients' needs. In this study N = 278 participants completed the SCL-90/R and the CBCL to examine the psychopathological symptoms of mothers and children (age of the children = 24 months); moreover, the dyads were video-recorded during feeding and followed an online video-feedback based intervention. Maternal emotional state, interactive conflict, food refusal in children, and dyadic affective state all improved considerably, as did offspring internalizing/externalizing problems and mothers' depression, anxiety, and obsession-compulsion symptoms. This study showed that video-feedback web-based intervention might be employed successfully to yield considerable beneficial effects.  | 
        
| Year of Publication | 
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              2022 
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| Journal | 
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              International journal of environmental research and public health 
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| Volume | 
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              19 
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| Issue | 
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              6 
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| Date Published | 
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              2022 
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| ISSN Number | 
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              1661-7827 
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| URL | 
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              https://www.mdpi.com/resolver?pii=ijerph19063696 
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| DOI | 
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              10.3390/ijerph19063696 
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| Short Title | 
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              Int J Environ Res Public Health 
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