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The Remote Family Support Programs for Eating Disorders

NCT05840614 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 67

Last updated 2025-07-29

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Summary

Eating disorders are serious mental health disorders associated with high levels of mortality, disability, physical and psychological morbidity, and impaired quality of life. Family members who spend the majority of their time with patients of eating disorders experience heavy psychological burden. Remote family support programs consist of interpersonal psychotherapy and family psychoeducation. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a remote family support program for eating disorders in an RCT (randomized controlled trial). The specific objective was to conduct a small pilot RCT of the remote family support program (n=28) compared with TAU (n=28).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

The remote family support program

Remote family support programs consist of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and family psychoeducation. Each session consisted of a lecture, followed by role playing and supportive group therapy. In the first session, we informed the participants about the symptoms of eating disorders and mechanism of IPT; in the second session, we shared details about the characteristics of adolescents; and during the third and fourth sessions, we provided information on effective communication according to IPT.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nagoya City University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Fujika Katsuki, Ph.D. · Nagoya City University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-03-18
Primary Completion
2024-08-30
Completion
2024-10-30

Countries

  • Japan

Study Locations

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Diseases

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