An interventional study of Parent-based prevention in Eating Disorders and Eating Behavior, sponsored by Stanford University. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-05-27.
Sponsored by Stanford University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
Parents with eating disorders exhibit greater concerns and dilemmas about developing healthy habits in their children. Studies indicate that the offspring of parents with eating disorders have more developmental and interpersonal difficulties. Consequently, these parents should receive personalized care to enhance their parental capacity and support them in their decision making process. The Parent-Based Prevention of Eating Disorders (PBP) is a promising intervention that may help improve feeding and eating practices and children outcomes, by engaging both parents in a short-term program. This study aims to empirically evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of PBP over a wait-list control group (i.e., treatment-as-usual) in a Randomized Case Series Trial.
A parental history of an eating disorder is linked with greater risk of eating and socio-emotional problems in the offspring, and more stressful parent-child interactions. Further, parenting concerns often exacerbate existing eating disorder symptoms in parents. Parent-Based Prevention (PBP-B) is a focused intervention aimed to support parents with eating disorders and their partners in developing healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors in their children. The program also focuses on reducing mealtime conflict and improving couple communication. This study tests the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of the Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) program for these parents and their partners. Parents with any lifetime eating disorder diagnosis who have at least one child 1-5 years old will be randomized to receive PBP immediately or following a 16-week waitlist period. This study will investigate whether PBP is feasible, acceptable, and associated with improvement in short-term outcomes that predict long term risks of eating and weight disorders (e.g., parental cognition associated with feeding practices and child eating behaviors and socio-emotional symptoms). The study will collect important case series data that will inform the design of larger, adequately powered studies to test ways to reduce the likelihood of eating and weight difficulties in the offspring of parents with eating disorders.
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Exclusion Criteria:
* Current medical condition necessitating more intensive care to manage symptoms.
Parent-Based Prevention (PBP; Sadeh-Sharvit \& Lock, 2018) is a manualized preventive intervention, focused on increasing parental awareness and competence to facilitate healthy eating habits, body image, and self-regulation in children whose parent has an eating disorder history. PBP is comprised of three phases that focus on unique goals. The strategies in each session include psycho-education, behavioral experiment planning, and skill practicing to augment parents' insight into how the context of the parental cognitions and behaviors may impact child outcomes, with the goal of creating a longstanding effect.
Behavioral: Parent-based prevention
Families randomized to usual care will be permitted to utilize any medical, psychological, or nutritional services they desire for the waitlist period of 16 weeks.
Parent-based prevention is a 12 session program for parents with eating disorders and their partners. Most sessions occur on a weekly basis, most of the sessions involve both partners.
Also known as: PBP
Feasibility of recruiting parents with a lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder: Number of eligible participants that agree to participate in the study
Number of eligible participants that agree to participate in the study
Time frame: Up to 48 months
Acceptability of the intervention: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire score
Mean Client Satisfaction Questionnaire score at end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-5, with higher scores indicative of greater satisfaction.
Time frame: Week 12
Parental feeding practices
Change scores of the Child Feeding Questionnaire from baseline to end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-5, with higher scores indicative of the parent endorsing more frequent behaviors on the dimension measured.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Child eating behaviors
Change scores of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire from baseline to end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-4, with higher scores indicative of greater endorsement of the behavior measured.
Time frame: Baseline and Week 12
Plan to share: No
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