“…In youth, the pilot study of Verbeken et al (2018) showed no significant effects of an experimental attention bias, inhibition and approach avoidance training in children and adolescents during inpatient MOT. This is also the case for some studies in adolescents in general (Van Royen et al, 2022) and eating disorders (Oomen, Grol, Spronk, Booth, & Fox, 2018;Poppelaars et al, 2018). Since the current RCT already cancelled out at least some methodological issues existing in previous research (Kemps et al, 2020), other explanations might account for the sobering findings.…”