Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Eating Disorders

NCT ID: NCT04148014

Last Updated: 2019-11-01

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 39 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-08-01
• Study Completion Date: 2019-04-30

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.

Conditions

Eating Disorders; Emotions; Skill, Coping

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Participants will receive a 5 session once a week group emotion regulation skills training adjacent to treatment as usual provided by the eating disorder unit at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic, Linköping, Sweden.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

An Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The adjunctive emotion regulation skills training is delivered in a group format once a week during 5 weeks to young adults with eating disorders together with treatment as usual

Interventions

An Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training

The adjunctive emotion regulation skills training is delivered in a group format once a week during 5 weeks to young adults with eating disorders together with treatment as usual

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Region Östergötland

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Maria Zetterqvist

Prinicipal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Maria Zetterqvist, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Region Östergötland

Locations

Region Ostergotland BUP-kliniken

Linköping, , Sweden

Countries

Sweden

References

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.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 32266070 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

2017/472-32

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id