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The aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy, efficiency, and patient experience of a new intervention program on adolescents with high-complexity eating disorders (ED). A prospective group of adolescents with ED (N=60) will follow this treatment program including four different phases: 1) Inpatient treatment; 2) Family Treatment Apartment; 3) Home Treatment; 4) Recovery within the community. The investigators will use a retrospective, control group (N=60) that matched the prospective group in age, sex, ED diagnosis, and severe symptomatology. Primary variables regarding Body Mass Index (BMI), ED symptomatology, functionality, recovery (yes/no), type of outpatient services (low/mid/high intensity), number of readmissions, and patient experience will be assessed at discharge, and after 6 and 12 months. Secondary variables include anxiety, depression, readiness to recover, quality of life symptoms, caregiver skills, and functionality of the family


Clinical Trial Description

The goal of this single-center, longitudinal study is to test the efficacy, efficiency, and patient experience of a new intensive treatment program in adolescents with high-complex eating disorders. The main questions it aims to answer are: - What are the efficacy, efficiency, and patient experiences (families and patients) of the new treatment program in adolescents with high-complex eating disorders? - What are the long-term effects of efficacy and efficiency (after 6 and after 12 months) of the new treatment program in adolescents with high-complex eating disorders? Participants will receive this new treatment program in four different phases between 16 and 20 weeks approximately. - 1st: inpatient treatment (4 weeks): Set-up: inpatient ED unit at the hospital (without the family). Objectives: maintenance of physical stabilization; ensuring adequate food intake while preventing compensatory behaviors; addressing ED-related problems; improving nutritional administration; enhancing awareness of the disorder and motivating the patient to change. - 2nd: family treatment apartment (2-3 weeks): Set-up: apartments where patients and their families live together that is owned by the healthcare system provider. Family treatment apartments are within a hospital context to facilitate a good transition to home treatment. Objectives: intensifying the treatment within a hospital setting that targets the difficulties the family encounter in managing ED symptoms; intervening from a systemic perspective; involving other family members in the treatment; collaborating with the family in developing skills to cope with the disorder; working on more autonomy and improved ED decision-making; facilitating the transition from hospitalization to home; facilitate access to the hospital staff and leads to a high frequency treatment. - 3rd: home treatment (8-9 weeks): Set-up: Patients live in their own home. Objectives: facilitating a good transition from hospitalization and family treatment apartments to home; generalize psychological skills and learnings; assisting in the progress that began in the hospital environment; providing treatment in a more family and social context; empowering families in their natural setting; promoting integration of the patient into their family, social, and school environments. - 4th: Recovery within the community (2-4 weeks): Set-up: transferring to the patients' specialized ED reference center. Objectives: gradually reducing the intervention from MINERVA; promoting autonomy and emotional management within their family and school environment; ensuring continued care with their ED reference unit; monitoring the implemented intervention. The current model will provide different treatment models during these phases. - family-based treatment - cognitive behavioural therapy - dialectical behavioural therapy - systemic family therapy ;


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NCT number NCT06431854
Study type Interventional
Source Fundació Sant Joan de Déu
Contact Eduardo Serrano-Troncoso, Dr.
Phone 0034673837093
Email eserrano@sjdhospitalbarcelona.org
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date October 23, 2023
Completion date December 2026

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