Trial reportThe International journal of eating disorders2025
Effectiveness of Remote Family Education and Support Program for Parents of Adolescents With Eating Disorders Based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in The International journal of eating disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05840614 (The Effectiveness of a Remote Family Support Programs for Families of Patients With Eating Disorders), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.
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The Effectiveness of a Remote Family Support Programs for Families of Patients With Eating Disorders
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- Effectiveness of Remote Family Education and Support Program for Parents of Adolescents With Eating Disorders Based on Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Trial
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objectiveGiven the frequent conflict between parents and adolescents with eating disorders, we aimed to develop a remote family education and support program (rFESP) for parents based on the principles of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and investigate its effect on promoting effective communication at home.
methodA clinical trial involving 67 parents of patients with adolescent eating disorders was conducted. Participants were randomly assigned to either the rFESP intervention group or the waiting control group. The intervention group received four rFESP sessions of 150 min each, conducted weekly over 4 weeks. Specifically, the primary outcome was the change in parents' active listening ability, as measured by the Active Listening Attitude Scale, while the secondary outcome was the change in the perception of social support and eating disorder symptoms evaluated by parents. Intention-to-treat analyses were conducted.
resultsA statistically significant effect of rFESP was found on the Active Listening Attitude Scale at 8 weeks (mean difference: 3.68, 95% confidence interval: 1.89-5.48, p < 0.001). Similarly, the intervention group scored higher with regard to perceived social support (difference = 2.69, 95% confidence interval: 1.11-4.27, p < 0.001). No significant differences were found in eating disorder symptoms. DISCUSSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the effectiveness of an IPT-based program for parents of adolescents with eating disorders. These findings suggest that this type of intervention is effective, albeit indirect, and could be a new support method for adolescent patients and their parents.
trial registrationClinical Trials.gov ID: NCT05840614.
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