Clinical trial NCT04254068: Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) for Parents With Eating Disorders
Official title: Preventing Feeding and Eating Disorders in Children of Parents With Eating Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorders
Eating Behavior
Keywords: Secondary prevention
Parent-based prevention
Lead sponsor: Stanford University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-02-05
Enrollment: 24
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Randomized case series trial
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed description: 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* A biological parent of a child between 1-5 years of age.
* A lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder.

Exclusion Criteria:

\* Current medical condition necessitating more intensive care to manage symptoms.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Feasibility of recruiting parents with a lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder: Number of eligible participants that agree to participate in the study
timeFrame: Up to 48 months
measure: Acceptability of the intervention: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire score
timeFrame: Week 12
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Parental feeding practices
timeFrame: Baseline and Week 12
measure: Child eating behaviors
timeFrame: Baseline and Week 12
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Stanford
country: United States
facility: Stanford University
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: s
name: Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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