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. 2018 May 25;12(1):33-43.
doi: 10.1007/s40617-018-0251-y. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Treatment of Food Selectivity in a Child with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Through Parent Teleconsultation

Bradley S Bloomfield  1 , Aaron J Fischer  1 , Racheal R Clark  1 , Meredith B Dove  2
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Treatment of Food Selectivity in a Child with Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Through Parent Teleconsultation

Bradley S Bloomfield et al. Behav Anal Pract. .

Abstract

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is a diagnosis for those who display impaired and distressing eating behaviors and symptoms. Behavioral feeding strategies have been shown to be effective at improving food variety and decrease problematic mealtime behaviors in children and adolescents. This study examined the use of teleconsultation for the implementation of a behavioral feeding intervention to increase food variety with a child with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder. A series of changing criterion designs across foods and food groups was used. Results show that there was an increase in the frequency of bites of nonpreferred foods consumed following successive increases in the criteria. High levels of acceptability of the intervention and technology process were also noted. Additionally, high levels of interobserver agreement, high levels of consultant procedural integrity, and high levels of parent treatment integrity were observed.

Keywords: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder; Food selectivity; Parent training; Reinforcement; Teleconsultation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors; all procedures with human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and comparable ethical standards.Informed consent was obtained in accordance with the institutional research committee standards.

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Bites consumed of fruit across trials
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Bites consumed across trials
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Parent treatment integrity by session
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Consultant procedural integrity by session
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