Adapting and adopting highly specialized pediatric eating disorder treatment to virtual care: a protocol for an implementation study in the COVID-19 context.
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              The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted individuals with eating disorders; resulting in increased symptoms, as well as feelings of isolation and anxiety. To conform with social distancing requirements, outpatient eating disorder treatment in Canada is being delivered virtually, but a lack of direction surrounding this change creates challenges for practitioners, patients, and families. As a result, there is an urgent need to not only adapt evidence-based care, including family-based treatment (FBT), to virtual formats, but to study its implementation in eating disorder programs. We propose to study the initial adaptation and adoption of virtual family-based treatment (vFBT) with the ultimate goal of improving access to services for youth with eating disorders.  | 
        
| Year of Publication | 
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              2021 
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| Journal | 
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              Implementation science communications 
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| Volume | 
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              2 
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| Issue | 
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              1 
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| Number of Pages | 
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              38 
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| Date Published | 
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              2021 
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| URL | 
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              https://implementationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s43058-021-00143-8 
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| DOI | 
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              10.1186/s43058-021-00143-8 
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| Short Title | 
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              Implement Sci Commun 
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