Development and validation of the Accommodation and Enabling Scale for Eating Disorders (AESED) for caregivers in eating disorders

Table 5 DVDs-skills-based intervention effect from means and standard deviations pre- to post-intervention from HADS, ECI, FQ and AESED scores.

Variables	N	*Baseline(T ₁) Means (SD)*	*Post-interv(T ₂) Means (SD)*	Z	*p-value* *(2-tailed)*	d
Primary Outcome	89
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
*Depression scale(0-21)*	82	7.5 (4.4)	6.0 (4.6)	-3.8	0.01	*0.34*
*Anxiety scale (0-21)*	80	12.0 (4)	10.1 (4.5)	3.6	0.01	*0.47*
Secondary Outcome
Experience of Caregiving Inventory (ECI)
*ECI-Negative(0-208)*	74	102 (37.7)	83 (37.5)	-5.3	0.01	*0.51*
Family Questionnaire(FQ)
*Criticism (10-40)*	85	23.3 (5.5)	22.3 (5.8)	-1.0	0.30	*0.20*
*Emotional Over-involvement (10-40)*	67	28.4 (4.4)	26 (4.4)	-5.0	0.01	*0.55*
Accommodation and Enabling Scale (AESED)
*Avoidance & Modifying R.* *(0-40)*	76	20.6 (9.7)	15.6 (9.7)	-4.3	0.01	*0.52*
*Reassure Seeking (0-32)*	75	9.4 (7.4)	8.8 (6.9)	-0.9	0.35	*0.08*
*Meal Ritual (0-28)*	82	7.7 (7.6)	5.8 (6.4)	-2.4	0.01	*0.27*
*Control of Family (0-16)*	79	8.0 (4.8)	5.7 (4.6)	-3.8	0.01	*0.49*
*'Turning a Blind Eye' (0-16)*	71	2.6 (3.4)	2.3 (3.6)	-0.9	0.34	*0.10*
*OVERALL score(0-132)*	70	48.3 (24)	39 (25)	-3.8	0.01	*0.38*

*d = Effect size was calculated on based of subscales' means and standard deviations
Wilcoxon's signed-ranks test for paired samples was used for non-parametric distribution (2^nd stage; n = 106)

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