Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Facial Emotion Recognition in Anorexia Nervosa

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06299293
• Other study ID #: 21C306
• Status: Completed
• Start date: February 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Istituto Auxologico Italiano
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Altered emotional processing is reported in Anorexia Nervosa. However, this capability is generally measured through explicit measures, like self-report questionnaires and facial emotion recognition tasks. Instead, no previous research has investigated implicit emotional processing in this clinical condition. In the implicit facial emotion recognition task grounded on the implicit "redundant target effect", individuals generally respond faster when two identical targets are presented simultaneously rather than when presented alone; moreover, the competitive presence of a distractor (that is another emotion or a neutral expression) affects the correct recognition of the target. The ability to recognize and detect facial expressions is explored about two main emotions, fear and anger, because of their role in the intra- and interindividual psychological processing.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: February 1, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: February 1, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 20 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• right-handed

• diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa according to the APA criteria

Exclusion criteria:

• concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Anorexia
• Anorexia Nervosa

Intervention

Other:
• Facial Emotion Recognition Test
In this test, the ability to detect and recognize facial expressions of fear or anger will be investigated.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano - Ospedale San Giuseppe	Piancavallo	VCO

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Behavioural measure relative to recognition ability	Level of accuracy expressed in percentage (min =%; max = 100%) about only the valid trails, in the case of emotion used as target.	baseline
Secondary	Behavioural measure relative to the detection ability	Reaction time (i.e., time of response from the onset of the visual stimulus) expressed in milliseconds relative to the valid response for the targeted emotion	baseline