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Developing Recommendations to Support Therapeutic Alliance in Eating Disorders Inpatient Treatment

NCT06961032 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2025-05-07

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Summary

The ALLIANCE study aims to understand and improve treatment relationships between staff and service users in inpatient eating disorder settings. It is NIHR funded and consists of 3 work packages (WP): WP1: Develop Programme Theory using realist literature review to identify how to effectively develop therapeutic alliance in inpatient treatment for Eating Disorders (ED), that maintains safety, whilst leading to improved treatment outcomes. WP1 consists of a literature review, using realist methods. Conducting this review will help us to understand existing evidence relating to treatment relationships in inpatient eating disorder setting. This WP is already underway. WP2: Test, expand and refine the theory via realist interviews with people who have lived experience of inpatient ED treatment and healthcare staff working in inpatient ED settings. Use the Programme Theory to develop actionable practice and policy recommendations to improve treatment outcomes, that can be operationalised (in a future study) into a complex intervention to improve alliance and treatment outcomes for ED. WP3: Codesign an animation (and supporting materials) with people with lived experience, to disseminate and communicate WP2 findings.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Loughborough University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of East Anglia

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Corinna J Hackmann, PhD, ClinPsyD · Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

  • Susan Holmes, PhD · University of East Anglia

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-31
Primary Completion
2025-11-30
Completion
2025-11-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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