Clinical trial NCT04148014: Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Eating Disorders
Official title: Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training: A Pilot Study of an add-on Treatment for Eating Disorders in a Clinical Setting
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorders
Emotions
Skill, Coping
Keywords: eating disorders
young adults
emotion regulation skills
Lead sponsor: Region Östergötland
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-11-01
Enrollment: 39
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A pilot study without randomization or controlled design
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Emotion regulation difficulties appear to play a role in the development and maintenance of several eating disorders. This pilot study aims at examining whether a short add-on group skills training in emotion regulation for young adults with different eating disorders is feasible in a psychiatric clinical setting. We also investigate if the treatment increases knowledge of emotions, and decreases self-reported difficulties with emotion regulation, alexithymia, symptoms of eating disorder, anxiety and depression, as well as clinical impairment.

Six skills training groups were piloted with a total of 29 participants (M = 21.41 years, SD = 1.92). The treatment consists of five sessions dealing with psychoeducation about emotions and emotion regulation skills training. Paired samples t-test was used to compare differences between before-and-after measures.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being enrolled as a patient at the eating disorder unit at eh child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Linköping, Sweden
* Having an eating disorder diagnosis as primary diagnosis.
* Being between the ages of 18-25 years
* Having sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Exclusion Criteria:

* Clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia
* Clinical diagnosis of psychosis
* Clinical diagnosis of severe autism spectrum disorder
* Having a cognitive disability
* Having ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
* Clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder
* Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Primary outcomes:
measure: Difficulties with Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
measure: Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
measure: Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q).
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
measure: The Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA)
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, self-report version (MADRS-S).
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
measure: Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
timeFrame: Change from baseline at 5 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Linköping
country: Sweden
facility: Region Ostergotland BUP-kliniken
Study officials:
affiliation: Region Östergötland
name: Maria Zetterqvist, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Holmqvist Larsson K, Lowen A, Hellerstedt L, Bergcrona L, Salerud M, Zetterqvist M. Emotion regulation group skills training: a pilot study of an add-on treatment for eating disorders in a clinical setting. J Eat Disord. 2020 Apr 3;8:12. doi: 10.1186/s40337-020-00289-1. eCollection 2020.