Equine-assisted Therapy and Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa Clinical Trial

Official title:

Equine-assisted Therapy in the Management of Adolescent Patients With Severe Anorexia Nervosa: a Qualitative Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06393491
• Other study ID #: EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 2, 2020
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Background: Severe anorexia nervosa is a complex psychiatric pathology with limited therapeutic tools to reduce morbidity and mortality. Equine-assisted therapy could provide additional therapeutic benefits.

Objectives : The investigators aimed to explore the effects of equine assisted therapy on the experience of adolescents with severe anorexia nervosa.

Méthods : Using a qualitative approach based on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, the investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with nine participants who had taken part in equine-assisted therapy sessions.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 9
• Est. completion date: May 30, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: May 30, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 13 Years to 25 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• having participated in at least 2 equine-assisted therapy sessions

• being or having been hospitalised between 2016 and 2022 in the psychiatric hospitalisation unit of the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris)

• ICD 10 diagnosis F50.0/ F.50.1

• female gender

• age between 13 and 25

• fluent French

• consent (including parents if minor participant)

Exclusion Criteria:

• having been under the care of C. Lepy (resident) during hospitalisation at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris)

• refusal to participate on the part of the participant or the holder of parental authority.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anorexia
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Equine-Assisted Therapy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Institut Mutualiste Montsouris	Paris

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Institut Mutualiste Montsouris

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Semi-structured face-to-face interviews of patients was carried out using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method.	Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method : this method explores people's perception of experience and how they make sense of it.; IPA is based on three epistemological foundations: phenomenology, hermeneutics and ideography. The phenomenological approach seeks to explore the participant's understanding of the world. Hermeneutics assumes the interpretive dimensions of the results, both in the participant's access to their own experience, and in the researcher's access to the participant's perception of the world.	Between November 2020 and May 2022, when participants had completed at least 2 sessions of equine-assisted therapy during a hospitalization for anorexia nervosa