Independent evaluation of the pilot of Digital CBTe within Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust All Age Eating Disorders Service

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust All Age Eating Disorders Service – Community Team piloted Digital CBTe, a digital programme-led intervention closely derived from Enhanced Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT-E), for use as a pure self-help intervention for patients on the waiting list who experience either binge eating disorder (BED) or bulimia nervosa (BN). The Centre for Research on Eating Disorders at Oxford (CREDO) has developed the Digital CBTe programme which provides access to an evidence-informed digital programme that enables patients to learn about their eating disorders and modify unhelpful behaviours and beliefs. The programme is available as a mobile application (app) and website. Dorset HealthCare All Age Eating Disorders Service commissioned Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) Insight team to carry out an independent evaluation of the pilot of Digital CBTe.

The evaluation used a mixed-methods approach comprising the analysis of standardised self-reported measures recorded within the Digital CBTe programme (Eating Disorder Examination questionnaire, EDE-Q 6, Clinical Impairment Assessment questionnaire, CIA, and Patient Health Questionnaire, PHQ-9), descriptive analysis of activity data provided by Dorset HealthCare, semi-structured interviews with patients and a staff survey.