Culinary Art Therapy Group for Adults With Eating Disorders.

Cognitive Change Clinical Trial

Official title:

Culinary Art Therapy Group for Adults With Eating Disorders: Assessment of Influence on Thinking, Patterns and Behaviour Related to Food.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Enrolling by invitation

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04538846
• Other study ID #: 0482-20-HMO
• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 11, 2020
• Est. completion date: September 2022

Study information

• Verified date: February 2021
• Source: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will assess the influence of culinary art therapy group (a new therapeutic tool) for adults with eating disorders. It will assess changes in thinking patterns and behavioural patterns associated with food and eating.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Enrollment: 52
• Est. completion date: September 2022
• Est. primary completion date: September 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• A diagnosis of eating disorder
• Body Mass Index (BMI) > 15

Exclusion Criteria:

• No active participation in three group sessions
• Refusal to take an active part in the sessions

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Behavior, Eating
• Cognitive Change
• Eating Disorders
• Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Relationship, Family

Intervention

Other:
• Culinary art therapy
Culinary art therapy is a novel approach which broadly perceives food and cooking as enabling participants to explore needs, patterns and relationships and facilitate therapeutic processes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Eating disorders outpatients department, Hadassah Medical Center	Jerusalem

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hadassah Medical Organization	University of Haifa

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)	This is a screening measure to help determine whether a person might have an eating disorder that needs professional attention. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of an eating disorder or take the place of a professional consultation.	3 months
Primary	Eating & Meal Preparation Skills Questionnaire (EMPSA)	The EMPSA is a 12-item self-report assessment tool designed to measure eating disordered clients' perceived ability and motivation to perform 12 eating and meal preparation tasks.	3 months
Primary	Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)	The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) assesses global self-esteem and sense of self-worthiness.	3 months
Secondary	Assessment of Communication and Interaction Skills (ACIS)	The ACIS is an observational assessment that gathers data on communication and interaction skills. Three domains, physicality, information exchange, and relations, are used to describe different aspects of communication and interaction. The ACIS gathers data on skill as it is exhibited during performance in an occupational form and/or within a social group.	3 months
Secondary	Individual semi-structured interview	Interviews aimed to allow each participant to relate to his or her own experience in a more independent and possibly safer setting.	3 months