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Targeting Social Function in Anxiety and Eating Disorders

NCT06198023 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2025-04-24

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Summary

Social processing and cognition are often altered in patients with eating disorders. The goal of this clinical trial is to assess two different social therapeutic interventions -- one educational, one interactive -- for their effectiveness in improving clinical outcomes in patients with eating disorders. Patients in both interventions will receive education about social function in eating disorders, but those in the interactive treatment group will complete an additional collaborative art task.

Participants will:

* attend a baseline study visit to complete clinical interviews, cognitive testing, and behavioral tasks
* complete a pre-intervention assessment with questionnaires
* attend eight sessions of their assigned treatment group over the course of 12 weeks
* complete three virtual follow-up assessments 4, 8, and 12 months from their baseline
* attend a final study visit to repeat some clinical interviews, cognitive testing, and behavioral tasks

Researchers will compare changes in eating disorder, mood, and anxiety symptoms as well as test results from baseline and final study visits for each group to see if

* patients can be treated effectively with education alone or if an interactive group component produces additional benefits
* cognitive and behavioral task performance are associated with recovery or illness state.

Conditions

  • Eating Disorders
  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Bulimia Nervosa
  • Atypical Anorexia Nervosa
  • Purging (Eating Disorders)
  • Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational

The educational intervention is an 8-session series of informational presentations about brain function and altered social processing related to eating disorders. Participants will receive a reflective prompt to complete as homework and will have an opportunity to discuss their responses during the following session.

BEHAVIORAL

Interactive

The interactive intervention is an 8-session series of experiential art therapy tasks followed by education about social processing. Participants will complete the tasks as a group or in small teams. Afterward, they will be encouraged to discuss their thoughts and feelings related to their experience. The educational component will include a homework assignment that participants will have the opportunity to discuss at the following session.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Carrie J McAdams, MD PhD · University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
30 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2024-02-28
Primary Completion
2028-03-31
Completion
2028-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT06198023 on ClinicalTrials.gov