Hi.,

Eating Disorder Treatment programs strive to make mental health care more easily accessible and reduce the stigma surrounding eating disorders.. Telemedicine allows clinicians to deliver specialized care to patients in a remote location...It will evaluate an Internet-based self-help intervention used to bridge ... as the first choice of treatment for Bulimia Nervosa (BN) and Binge Eating Disorder . For patients with eating disorders, barriers to treatment are particularly high as, for the implementation of E-health interventions in the health care delivery system..

For more info:

https://www.eatingdisorderhope.com/treatment-for-eating-disorders/international/india

Here are a few relevant articles I found online - I'm sure a lot more are available with a good search engine. Best wishes, Rachel.

Hay PJ, Touyz S, Claudino AM, Lujic S, Smith CA, Madden S. Inpatient versus outpatient care, partial hospitalisation and waiting list for people with eating disorders. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2019; CD010827

Check if these researchers are on RG.

Hi Elnaz

Here are some recent references on BED and Internet or smartphone treatment:

• Hildebrandt, T., Michaeledes, A., Mayhew, M., Greif, R., Sysko, R., Toro-Ramos, T., & DeBar, L. (2020). Randomized controlled trial comparing health coach-delivered smartphone-guided self-help with standard care for adults with binge eating. American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(2), 134-142.
• Jensen, E. S., Linnet, J., Holmberg, T. T., Tarp, K., Nielsen, J. H., & Lichtenstein, M. B. (2020). Effectiveness of internet‐based guided self‐help for binge‐eating disorder and characteristics of completers versus noncompleters. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 53(12), 2026-2031.
• Yim, S. H., Bailey, E., Gordon, G., Grant, N., Musiat, P., & Schmidt, U. (2020). Exploring Participants’ Experiences of a Web-Based Program for Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder: Qualitative Study. Journal of medical Internet research, 22(9), e17880.

Keith