Clinical trial NCT03643445: Motivation-Oriented Versus Psychoeducation-Oriented Day Hospital Treatment for Eating Disorders
Official title: A Comparison of Motivation-Oriented Versus Psychoeducation-Oriented Day Hospital Treatment for Eating Disorders
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Motivational Interviewing
Psychoeducation
Keywords: motivational Interviewing; motivation
psychoeducation; psychoeducational-oriented treatment
Lead sponsor: York University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: North York General Hospital
First posted: 2018-08-22
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Eating disorder participants will be randomly assigned either the motivation-oriented treatment condition or the psychoeducation-oriented treatment condition. Patients in both groups will receive the same care in terms of their hospital treatment and opportunities for interaction with the staff. The only difference will be that for ½ of participants, their treatment will be infused with motivation-oriented interventions. For the others, their interactions will be infused with psychoeducation-oriented interventions. All patients have interactions with an individual therapist at various time points in their hospital treatment. The points at which a patient meets with his or her individual therapist are as follows: at the orientation to the program, a 6-week check-in, and a 10-12 week check-in. As well, patients typically meet with their individual therapist whenever the treatment team determines that a patient may be struggling in the program and is at risk of premature drop-out.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 1. Study Objectives To evaluate changes in general symptomatology in patients undergoing the day hospital eating disorders program at North York General Hospital and compare symptoms between treatment groups (motivation-oriented vs. psychoeducation-oriented).

   To determine treatment satisfaction ratings in patients undergoing the day hospital program and compare satisfaction between treatment groups.

   To evaluate the acceptability of patient-centered and motivation-oriented eating disorder treatment among patients.
2. Study Hypotheses:

Participants who receive motivation-oriented adjunctive treatment will experience larger improvements in eating disorder symptomatology 6 weeks into treatment, 10-12 weeks into treatment, and at discharge (compared to admission), and as compared to those receiving psychoeducation-oriented adjunctive treatment. Patients who receive motivation-oriented adjunctive treatment will report higher satisfaction with treatment, stronger feelings of motivation to recover, and will be more likely to complete the program as compared to those receiving psychoeducation-oriented adjunctive treatment.

Detailed description: The Adult Eating Disorders Day Hospital Program at NYGH treats patients with a diagnosis of an eating disorder, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and other specified feeding and eating disorder. As with all intensive eating disorder treatment programs, relapse and drop-out are common occurrences. These outcomes are understood to occur when a patient is not ready to commit to the behavioural changes that are required for recovery, including normalized eating and abstinence from extreme food restriction, and bingeing and purging symptoms. Many patients struggle while they are in treatment for an eating disorder, demonstrating continued dietary restriction or urges to have symptoms like bingeing and purging.

The investigators are interested in examining whether modifications to the way in which the NYGH adult eating disorders program addresses motivation among patients will improve the quality, efficiency, and outcome of care. This study will compare two psychosocial adjunctive treatments during the standard hospital-based day treatment: one that focuses on patients' motivation to recover (motivational interviewing; MI) and the other that focuses on teaching patients about eating disorders and their associated risks (psychoeducation).

Informed by previous findings that a brief pre-treatment of MI can sometimes reduce treatment drop-out from intensive ED treatment, the current study aims to understand the effectiveness of motivation-oriented treatment for eating disorders. Based on previous research, if a patient is encouraged to reflect on and resolve obstacles to their readiness to change throughout the course of treatment, the researchers believe that objective treatment outcomes will improve alongside positive shifts in personal agency and confidence in one's ability to get better. Therefore, in addition to examining treatment completion and symptom improvement (as assessed by the standard questionnaires given to patients as part of program evaluation), the researchers will examine other psychological indicators of improvement that previous research has shown are important to consider in recovery, including treatment outcome expectancy (i.e., whether a patient feels confident that they can get better) as well as satisfaction with treatment.

The study will consist of two groups: patients will be randomly assigned to either motivation-oriented treatment or psychoeducation-oriented treatment. The researchers will include the fairly comprehensive package of outcome measures already administered to patients in this program to ensure that the researchers are looking at overall symptomatology in patients, as well as processes that could be expected to mediate outcome, such as patients' treatment outcome expectancies. The researchers will compare means on all measures between groups from pre-, mid- and end-of-treatment. The researchers believe that results from this study will add to the growing body of literature demonstrating the therapeutic benefit for motivation-oriented treatments for eating disorders and could assist the treatment team at NYGH and other hospitals with treatment planning.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Receiving treatment at NYGH in the Adult Eating Disorders Program
2. Over 17 years old
3. Able to speak and read English (minimum Grade 6 reading level)
4. Able to provide informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Not Applicable

Primary outcomes:
measure: Eating Disorder Symptomatology
timeFrame: 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self-ratings of motivation to recover
timeFrame: 8 weeks
measure: Self-ratings of Treatment Satisfaction
timeFrame: up to 24 weeks
measure: Completion of Program
timeFrame: up to 24 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: North York General Hospital
state: Ontario
Study officials:
affiliation: North York General Hospital
name: Jennifer Mills, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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