Table 1

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteria
Patient populationPatients of any age with a diagnosed ED as per ICD-11 or DSM-5 criteria (including older editions) and those with comorbid conditions, such as personality disorder.Patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria for EDs as outlined in the ICD-11 or DSM-5 (and previous editions), as well as those individuals diagnosed solely with BPD without a concurrent ED diagnosis.
InterventionMBT in individual or group settings, solely using MBT protocols tailored for ED treatment.MBT interventions not specific for EDs and interventions lacking integration of MBT principles in treating EDs.
ComparatorTreatment as usual, alternative active interventions for EDs, waiting list cohort, placebo or no control group.Studies lacking baseline or endpoint data in the absence of a control group.
OutcomesMeasures specific to ED pathology, for example, The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, Eating Disorder Symptoms Scale, Change in Eating Disorder Symptoms Scale, Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales, and body image dimensional assessment.Does not report any ED outcomes specific to ED pathology or those specified in inclusion criteria.
Types of evidencePublished, peer-reviewed randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs and longitudinal quantitative studies with multiple participants (including RCTs, quasiexperimental studies, cohort studies and case series). English language papers.Systematic reviews and meta-analyses, incomplete trials, case-control studies, case reports, qualitative papers, non-peer-reviewed publications, editorials, commentaries, books and book chapters are excluded. Non-English papers.
  • DSM, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; ED, eating disorder; ICD, International Classification of Diseases.