Parent Educational Videos for Anorexia

Age: < 18

Sex: Any

Trial Phase: Academic

Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine

Disqualifiers: Autism, Intellectual disability

No Placebo Group All trial participants will receive the active study treatment (no placebo)

Compensation: Varies

Number of Visits: 4

What You Need to Know Before You Apply

What is the purpose of this trial?

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a brief parent educational video series is feasible, acceptable, and effective for improving parent and patient outcomes for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Do parents want to watch these educational videos and find them helpful/useful ? Do parents who watch the videos report improvement in their knowledge about restrictive eating disorders and self-efficacy in helping their child recover, as well as reductions in stress and burden associated with parenting a child with anorexia? Do adolescents (ages 10-16) report improvements in their eating disorder symptoms when their parents watch these videos?

Investigators will compare treatment as usual (traditional family and individual therapy with regular medical and nutrition visits) to treatment as usual plus the parent educational videos to see if the videos improve parental and patient outcomes beyond treatment as usual.

Parent and adolescent participants will complete baseline measures including:

Parent measures: eating disorder knowledge, self-efficacy, stress and burnout Patient (adolescent) measures: eating disorder symptoms, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms

Parents will complete these measures immediately after first meeting with their child's medical doctor to confirm a diagnosis of a restrictive eating disorder and then again 3 months later. The investigators will also assess the video feasibility and acceptability by asking parents to report their satisfaction with the videos and to assess how many approached families enroll in the study.

Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?

Inclusion Criteria

I have been diagnosed with a restrictive eating disorder by a doctor at Texas Children's Hospital.

I am between 10 and 16 years old.

* The adolescent and their parent/guardian must be able to read and write English fluently

Timeline for a Trial Participant

Screening

Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial

1 week

1 visit (in-person)

Baseline Assessment

Parents and adolescents complete baseline measures including eating disorder knowledge, self-efficacy, stress, burnout, and mental health symptoms.

1 week

1 visit (in-person)

Intervention

Parents in the intervention group watch a series of four educational videos and complete satisfaction and knowledge assessments.

3 months

Online video sessions

Follow-up Assessment

Parents and adolescents complete follow-up measures to assess changes in knowledge, self-efficacy, stress, burnout, and eating disorder symptoms.

3 months post enrollment

1 visit (in-person)

Long-term Follow-up

Adolescents attend a medical or nutrition appointment to assess weight and health-related changes.

6 months post enrollment

1 visit (in-person)

What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?

Interventions

• Parent Educational Videos

How Is the Trial Designed?

Group I: Treatment as Usual + Parent Educational Videos (PEV) Experimental Treatment 2 Interventions

Participant receives treatment as usual plus the 4 video Parent Educational Video series (psychoeducational for parents of adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa)

Group II: Treatment as Usual Active Control 1 Intervention

Participant receives individual and family therapy for Anorexia Nervosa, as well as regular medical and nutrition follow up appointments.

Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?

Baylor College of Medicine

Lead Sponsor

Trials

1,044

Recruited

6,031,000+