Dropout rates
PHYSICAL ILLNESS
Of the 24 patients enrolled at pretreatment assessment, 11 patients (45.8%) terminated the BEAT program prematurely (dropouts): Of these, one (9.1%) dropped out after the pretreatment assessment in the waiting-time period, seven (63.6%) during the nine treatment sessions of the active treatment, and three (27.3%) during the follow-up period. Considering dropout reasons, for three patient (27.3%) the BEAT program was too demanding, especially the email-guided self-help sessions, two patients (18.2%) cancelled the first workshop due to time issues or illness, two patients (18.2%) had developed a physical illness that needed prior treatment and for four patients (36.4%) dropout reasons were unknown as they didn’t reply to emails and phone calls. Compared to patients who remained in the study, those who terminated BEAT prematurely did not differ with respect to pretreatment values of age, ARS-D, BDI-FS, EDE-Q global score, BMI-SDS, and WBQ (