View clinical trials related to Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia.
Filter by:The purpose of the project is to study the effectiveness of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for adolescents and young adults when applied to depression and eating disorders. Specific aims are to analyze the effects, change mechanisms, predictors, and implementation of IPT for youth. In this four-year project we will include 120 patients with depression and 60 adolescents and young adults with eating disorders. Outcome will be studied using a quasi-experimental multiple-baseline design. Change mechanisms will be studied in the form of mentalizing, emotion regulation, social support, and working alliance session-by-session, and with post-treatment qualitative interviews about the participants' experiences of change. Predictors of effectiveness of IPT for adolescents and young adults will be explored by measuring severity of symptoms, anxiety symptoms, presence and severity of parent-child conflicts, quality of interpersonal relationships, experiences of bullying, and school functioning. The implementation process of IPT for youth will be studied through interviews with adolescents, parents, therapists, co-workers, and local managers. The study is a multi-center study within child and adolescent psychiatric services in Gothenburg and Norrköping using a practice-oriented research strategy which emphasizes close collaboration with clinicians. The project is a collaboration between researchers at Linnaeus University, Linköping University, and University of Gothenburg, and clinicians at the BUP Norrköping and Ätstörningscentrum Barn och Unga Vuxna, Sahlgrenska University Hospital.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of oral naltrexone tablets in pediatric and adolescent eating disorders, in particular anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, as compared to placebo. Study participants will be patients in a partial hospitalization program or intensive outpatient program for eating disorder.
This study aims to improve eating disorders symptomatology, mental, psychosocial and physical health, quality of life, strength and body composition of adolescents with eating disorders by the development of a dog-assisted therapy program. The current research will involve thirty-two patients distributed equally in a control and an experimental group. The intervention group will participate once a week in a dog-assisted therapy of seven weeks. Moreover, all the included patients will participate in an assessment session before and after the intervention to compare the effects of the dog-assisted therapy within and between groups in anxiety, depression, character, behavior, eating disorder evolution, health-related quality of life, treatment satisfaction, strength and body composition. Based on previous studies on different populations, it is expected that, compared to the control group, the experimental group may experience a potential reduction in anxiety, depression and symptoms, while improving quality of life, strength, body composition and behavior.
The goals of this project are to 1) develop training opportunities for master's-level and pre-doctoral psychology students in evidence-based assessment and treatment of adolescent EDs; 2) to provide the healthcare workforce, including licensed health professionals such as primary care physicians and behavioral health interventionists, with knowledge and competence to recognize early symptoms of and intervention strategies for EDs; and 3) to test the efficacy of delivering two evidence-based treatments for adolescent eating disorders, Family Based Treatment (FBT) and Enhanced Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT-E), in the home-based setting.
Alexithymia is often found in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa or from bulimia. Art-therapy is widely used in this indication without there is a study in the literature assessing it. ALEXART is an observational prospective multicenter cohort pilot study, assessing the effect at 3 months of art therapy on alexithymia, in patients presenting anorexia nervosa or bulimia.