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Emotion Coaching for Anorexia Nervosa

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Led By Claire M Aarnio-Peterson, PhD
Research Sponsored by Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be younger than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up baseline, 1-month, 3-months, and 6 months post-randomization
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Study Summary

This trial is testing whether adding a parent emotion coaching skills group to FBT will help improve outcomes for adolescents with AN.

Eligible Conditions
  • Anorexia Nervosa

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~baseline, 1-month, 3-months, and 6 months post-randomization
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, 1-month, 3-months, and 6 months post-randomization for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Change in expressed emotion
Change in percentage of median body mass index (%mBMI)
Secondary outcome measures
Change in parental warmth

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: Emotion CoachingExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Participants randomized to FBT + EC parent group condition will also receive FBT as part of their standard of care. In addition to FBT, they will receive 10 additional, weekly, parent group sessions (each session is 60 minutes, 6-8 group members), within a 3-month time frame to account for cancellations. The EC intervention is designed to reduce expressed emotion (e.g., critical comments) and increase parental warmth. The intervention includes emotional awareness and emotion regulation skills for parents, and emotion communication skills for parents to use with their teens undergoing FBT including active listening, emotion support, labeling emotions, and coping with emotions. The structure of EC parent group sessions will begin with review of homework as applicable, a didactic component to teach new skills, followed by role plays between parents in the group and interventionist, and live coaching and feedback from the interventionist.
Group II: Support GroupActive Control1 Intervention
Participants randomized to FBT + Support parent group condition will also receive FBT as part of their standard of care. In addition to FBT, they will receive 10 additional, weekly, parent group sessions (each session is 60 minutes, 6-8 group members), within a 3-month time frame to account for cancellations. The parent support group facilitates parent discussion and support around a variety of topics central to treatment for pediatric AN including: understanding medical co-morbidities, levels of care for treatment, understanding expected body weight, navigating FMLA, and medications. The facilitator introduces each topic weekly and opens up discussion between parents. The facilitator's role is to ensure the group remains on topic and on time.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Emotion Coaching
2020
N/A
~50

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Who is running the clinical trial?

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)NIH
2,782 Previous Clinical Trials
2,689,066 Total Patients Enrolled
47 Trials studying Anorexia Nervosa
22,802 Patients Enrolled for Anorexia Nervosa
Children's Hospital Medical Center, CincinnatiLead Sponsor
815 Previous Clinical Trials
6,531,555 Total Patients Enrolled
Claire M Aarnio-Peterson, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorChildren's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati

Frequently Asked Questions

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To what extent is participation in this experiment being solicited?

"Affirmative. According to clinicaltrials.gov, this research study has been searching for potential participants since June 8th of 2020 and was last updated on July 19th 2022. 50 volunteers are needed from a single site in order to move the investigation forward."

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Is enrollment for this investigation still open?

"According to clinicaltrials.gov, this medical trial is open for enrollment and has been since June 8th 2020. The last time it was updated was on July 19th 2022."

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Is eligibility for this experiment limited to those over 65 years of age?

"The target demographic for this trial is individuals aged 12 to 17."

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For whom is this clinical trial suitable?

"Those who meet the criteria of being between 12 and 17 years old with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa can be accepted into this trial, which aims to enrol approximately 50 patients."

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Who else is applying?

What state do they live in?
Kansas
What portion of applicants met pre-screening criteria?
Met criteria
Recent research and studies
clinicaltrials.govStudy
Parent Emotion Coaching for Anorexia Nervosa
Claire Aarnio-Peterson 2020. "Parent Emotion Coaching for Anorexia Nervosa". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04421989.
~8 spots leftby Apr 2025
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