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Exploring the Changes in Social Interaction and Its Protective Features in Anorexia Nervosa

NCT06439160 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 68

Last updated 2025-05-01

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Summary

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder often characterised by restriction of food intake, being underweight, body image uneasiness, and the possibility of binge eating, purging, fasting behaviours, and excessive exercising. Despite weight and eating habits being one, and perhaps the most recognizable, components of AN, AN is a multidimensional disease. For example, individuals affected by AN might show psychological suffering, such as depression and anxiety. For example, social anxiety disorder/social phobia is the first or second most common comorbid anxiety in AN (i.e. prevalence rates ranging from 16% to 88.2% in AN against 12% in the general population). Moreover, the highest the level of social anxiety the highest the severity of the eating disorder psychopathology. This latter component resonates with findings on the difficulties observed in people affected by AN in creating and maintaining satisfactory relationships with others. These evidences tell us the importance to take into account the social components/skills of people affected by AN.

The development of social components/skills of people affected by AN during their recovery can be considered as a protective factor for future relapse. This would be of relevance for the creation of rehabilitative programs.

Conditions

  • Anorexia Nervosa

Interventions

OTHER

Participants will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires at t0, t1 and t2

Individuals will be people who voluntarily will take part in a residential three to six weeks multidisciplinary inpatient intensive rehabilitation treatment targeting the improvement of psychological well-being, body image, and psychopathology for anorexia nervosa. Therefore, at T0 (at the beginning of the treatment) and T1 (at the end of the rehabilitation programme), participants will fill out some self-report questionnaires to evaluate the effect of the multidisciplinary inpatient intensive rehabilitation treatment on different outcomes (i.e. psychological well-being, eating pathology, body image, and comorbidities), among which their social components/skills. Moreover, we will ask participants to complete 3 months after discharge the questionnaires related to the social components/skills only. Participants will be contacted by email, within the email participants will find a link to click on for the completion of the questionnaires.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Turin, Italy

    collaborator OTHER

  • Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

    collaborator OTHER

  • Istituto Auxologico Italiano

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-01-10
Primary Completion
2024-10-31
Completion
2024-10-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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