Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for Outpatients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Effectiveness (Datafiles and Guidelines)

The data files presented relate to a pre-registered systematic review and meta-analysis of outpatient CBT for anorexia nervosa. It was conducted to assess the effectiveness of outpatient CBT for anorexia nervosa and explore potential moderators in order to inform clinical practice. Preregistration: PROSPERO (CRD42023484924)The following documents are intended for reading alongside the published paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16506073.2025.2465745 (published March 2025).The provided documents are: An Excel file containing a workbook with the dataset used in this review, named "main datafile". The front tab serves as a contents page, and further details on how the data were obtained are provided in PROSPERO and the accompanying Word document.*A zip file with CSV versions of each sheet in the above Excel workbook.A Word document titled <i>Reviewer Guidelines for Full Paper Screening, Data Extraction, and Quality Assessment</i>. This document contains the instructions the reviewers used for screening, data extraction, and quality assessment. A .txt version of this file is also provided. An Excel file containing the risk of bias assessments conducted for the included studies. The first tab provides overall guidance for each of the three risk-of-bias assessments conducted. Each set of assessments has another tab with guidance followed by the reviewer for each set of assessments.A zip file with CSV versions of each sheet in the above Excel worksheet.A Word document titled <i>Holm-Bonferroni Corrections for Results Tables. </i>A .txt version of this file. Populated Meta-Essentials workbooks for each of the included meta-analyses (.csv versions of these workbooks are not provided as Meta-Essentials only works in Excel). There are workbooks for each of the following variables: weight, eating disorder symptoms, depression, anxiety, and quality of life. <i> </i><i>Note. </i>If you download any of the Meta-Essentials workbooks, please keep the following in mind:Workbooks must be opened in Microsoft Excel only, as other spreadsheet programs (e.g., Google Sheets, Numbers) will not run the calculations correctly.When you open a workbook, Excel may display a security warning. Please click “Enable Editing” and, if prompted, “Enable Content” so that all formulas and functions work properly.All formulas, references, and embedded calculations should work exactly as in the original file. The online preview in ORDA may not display calculations correctly but they should work in the downloaded files. If the files do not work for you, or if you wish to run analyses with the data file themselves, we have provided the dataset and you can download the Meta-Essentials workbooks at: https://www.eur.nl/en/erim/research-support/meta-essentials/download*Note. Rossi et al. (2023) was corrected to Rossi et al. (2024) in the published paper.