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Filter by:The current proposal will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of Exposure Therapy for anorexia nervosa (AN) spectrum disorders (Exp-AN), an innovative treatment rooted in principles of inhibitory learning. Exp-AN will target anxiety about both eating and weight gain by combining in vivo (i.e., in real life) and imaginal (i.e., mental) exposure in novel ways (e.g., eating a feared food while listening to a recording describing fears about weight gain).
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of eating disorders on occupational balance in university students. Occupational balance levels will be compared in university students with and without eating disorders. The study will be finalized with the voluntary participation of 105 university students for both groups and 210 university students in total. The relationship between eating disorder tendencies and occupational balance in university students will be examined.
The hypothesis of the study is that low-cost self-completion questionnaires relating to eating disorder symptoms will predict the subsequent results of a detailed, semi-structured interview assessment of eating disorder symptoms that has been calibrated according to expert clinical diagnostic case thresholds. Eating disorders are recognised as a research priority among healthcare professionals, adults with lived experience, and their carers alike. There is a need for measurement methods that can reliably and systematically identify symptoms of common forms of eating disorder, including those fulfilling agreed diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Effective diagnostic interview tools can facilitate early detection of eating disorders. To develop rules for determining whether diagnostic criteria for eating disorders are met, a study involving adults referred to specialist eating disorder services is required. In this study, assessments by eating disorder clinicians will be compared with researcher assessments using a semi-structured interview assessment, the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry version 3 section 9 (SCANv3s9). The study population will consist of 100 adult patients referred to specialist eating disorder services, including patients whose referrals are accepted by these services, as well as those who are not. Clinical assessments and structured interview assessment findings will also be compared with those from widely used screening tools for eating disorders, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire short-form and the SCOFF (Sick, Control, One, Fat, Food) questionnaire. The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire Short-Form (EDE-QS) and the SCOFF (Sick, Control, One, Fat, Food) questionnaire in adults referred to specialist eating disorder services, in a comparison with the Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry subsection on eating disorders and specialist NHS clinician assessments of the probability of eating disorder. This will help develop appropriate and accurate benchmarks for estimating the prevalence of eating disorder symptoms and clinical diagnoses, in adults referred to specialist eating disorder services, as well as the wider population (through combining the findings from this study with those of the community 2023 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey).
Current treatments for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with eating disorders (EDs) do not effectively address a central ED symptom - anxiety about weight gain - which contributes to poor outcomes. The proposed study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, efficacy, and underlying mechanisms of an enhanced version of "open weighing," a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to target anxiety about weight gain in AYAs with EDs. Understanding how to better treat AYAs with EDs, and identifying the mechanisms by which interventions lead to improvement, will aid in the development of more effective and personalized treatments, ultimately improving the lives of AYAs with EDs.
Eating disorders (EDs) are a group of illnesses associated with significant psychological and physiological consequences. Overall, only 20% of individuals with EDs receive treatment and treatment is effective for only about 25-35% for those who receive care. The development and implementation of effective prevention approaches for those at risk is therefore pivotal. The Body Project is the most effective ED prevention program for at-risk females according to meta-analyses, but reach has been limited since delivery has traditionally been in-person. Further research is warranted to examine cost-effective and easily accessible approaches to increase scalability and potential for broad implementation. With this application, the investigators therefore propose to examine the effectiveness of the Body Project in young females, a high-risk group, with the following main novel aspects: i) virtually-delivered Body Project groups to maximize reach; ii) peer-led versus clinician-led virtually-delivered Body Project groups; iii) the inclusion of objective measures to assess engagement of intervention targets (i.e., mediator).
The goal of this clinical trial is to analyze and compare in female college women two prevention programs for eating disorders, the Spanish Version of the eBodyProject and a traditional/educational prevention program. The main question it aims to answer is: • The Spanish Version of the eBodyProject (intervention group) is more effective to prevent the onset of eating disorders with college students than a traditional psychological and educational prevention program (control group). Participants will have to complete two main phases: assessment (pre- prevention program) and conducting the eBodyProject or traditional prevention program. The duration of the program is 4 weeks. If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare the Spanish eBodyProject Group with the traditional group to see and compare the effectiveness of each intervention arm.
This research project aims to characterize a naturalistic cohort of children and adolescents with eating disorders in terms of biological, psychological and psychopathological features. Further, the project will examine the effectiveness of treatment, the determinants of treatment outcome and the course of treatment response for children and adolescents with eating disorders (ED), treated in a generic specialist child and adolescent mental health service. The first choice of treatment is outpatient family-based treatment (FBT), which has documented effect for anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. However, a subgroup of young persons with eating disorders does not respond sufficiently to this treatment, and evidence concerning effective treatment for children and adolescents with atypical eating disorders is still lacking. Further, treatment effectiveness for children and adolescents in a Danish naturalistic setting has never been examined.
Eating disorders (ED) are insufficiently detected and belatedly or not treated during pregnancy. There are many screening questionnaires for eating disorders in the literature, but we note the absence of a specific and validated tool for their screening during pregnancy, which would make it possible to differentiate maternal dietary concerns related to pregnancy from symptoms linked to a proven eating disorder. The main objective of the study is to evaluate which items of the Sick Control One stone Fat Food (SCOFF-F) and Eating disorders examination questionnaire (EDE-Q) questionnaires could be specific to an ED during pregnancy and not related to the simple state of pregnancy, by comparing the answers of pregnant women, for whom the diagnosis of ED has been made, to those of pregnant women without an ED.
The goal of thin randomized controlled trial is to investigate the efficacy of a prevention program for reducing the incidence of eating disorders among youth (15-20). We target youth at these ages who experience a subjective sense of body dissatisfaction, and are thus at increased risk of developing an eating disorder. The prevention program is based on improving protective factors such as body appreciation, body image flexibility, intuitive eating, and acceptance. It will be compared to a credible placebo (expressive writing).
Eating disorders are serious mental health disorders associated with high levels of mortality, disability, physical and psychological morbidity, and impaired quality of life. Family members who spend the majority of their time with patients of eating disorders experience heavy psychological burden. Remote family support programs consist of interpersonal psychotherapy and family psychoeducation. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a remote family support program for eating disorders in an RCT (randomized controlled trial). The specific objective was to conduct a small pilot RCT of the remote family support program (n=28) compared with TAU (n=28).