Clinical trial NCT01051375: Examining the Effectiveness of a Wait List Intervention for the Management of Adolescent Eating Disorders
Official title: Examining the Effectiveness of a Wait List Intervention for the Management of Adolescent Eating Disorders
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorders
Keywords: anorexia nervosa
bulimia nervosa
EDNOS
Lead sponsor: University of Ottawa
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-01-18
Enrollment: 51
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 10
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The current application targets patient education and enablement, implementation of best practices, continuity of care, and an improvement model to improve efficiencies by investigating whether a brief targeted intervention prior to the first formal ED assessment is efficacious in altering outcome and treatment course.

Detailed description: The Eating Disorder Program at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) offers a continuum of treatment options to child and adolescent patients with eating disorders (EDs). Although our own funding has increased in recent years, so too have the number of referrals, which has resulted in lengthy wait times for therapeutic assessments by our team. The current application targets patient education and enablement, implementation of best practices, continuity of care, and an improvement model to improve efficiencies by investigating whether a brief targeted intervention prior to the first formal ED assessment is efficacious in altering outcome and treatment course. It is well known that early recognition and implementation of treatment as soon as possible after the onset of symptoms is protective in eating disorders and leads to better success rates and recovery (APA Treatment Guidelines for EDs). It is hoped that the outcome of this study will influence the way in which centers look to address the ongoing issue of lengthy wait times in hopes of offering cost-effective interventions that ultimately improve patient outcomes. By offering an added level of support to families whose referral has been initiated, we hope to ease the burden of primary care providers and increase their satisfaction as it relates to patient safety concerns and complex case management.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* medical stability at time of referral
* completed referral to the Eating Disorders Program

Exclusion Criteria:

* patients deemed medically unstable are triaged urgently and not eligible for study inclusion

Primary outcomes:
measure: Investigate whether a wait list intervention for patients and families who are on a wait list, improves patient presentation at the time of formal assessment, as well as 6-months post-assessment
timeFrame: 18 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Evaluate the impact that a wait list intervention group workshop has on caregiver knowledge, stress, and self-efficacy pertaining to eating disorders and their treatment
timeFrame: 12 months
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Ottawa
country: Canada
facility: Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: CHEO
name: Mark Norris, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: CHEO
name: Wendy Spettigue, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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