Speech Groups for Children Living with a Sibling Who Suffers from Anorexia Nervosa

NCT ID: NCT06528158

Last Updated: 2025-01-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 24 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-01-02
• Study Completion Date: 2026-08-31

Brief Summary

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a complex mental disease with a huge impact on the patient's siblings life and well-being. Based on literature, group interventions for siblings of children suffering from a chronic disease could provide an effective support. A few have been studied, and even fewer exist for siblings of children with AN.

Detailed Description

AN has a significant impact on nuclear family (parents and siblings). An emerging literature highlights the need for a particular attention to siblings. Despite this evidence, research and clinical applications still lack in this area. Indeed, most of health services in AN offer support for patients, family, parents, but only few specific support for siblings, although positive outcomes of sibling group interventions were reported in other somatic and psychic disabilities.

Noting the gap between the need and the lack of specific support, the study hypothesis is that the poor diffusion of these interventions in AN might result from a low acceptability. The study propose to explore acceptability to adapt and improve group intervention for siblings of children and teenagers receiving care for anorexia nervosa.

The study is a mixed-method pilot study assessing the acceptability of a group intervention by including a maximum of 24 siblings of children suffering from AN, aged from 8 to 18, across three group sessions, each consisting of 4 meetings. All participants will be invited to fulfill two different auto-questionnaires about their quality of life (before and after group session) and the intervention's acceptability (after group session).

Quantitative data will be complemented with qualitative data, collected from individual semi-structured interviews with a targeted sampling among group participants.

Conditions

Anorexia Nervosa

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

sibling group

The group will be based on a systemic model and led by two child psychiatrists trained in family and multi-family therapy, who will not subsequently be involved in the data analysis. It will consist of 4 sessions of 1h30, spread over a period of 2 months, with a maximum of 8 participants per session. The first 3 sessions will be spaced 15 days apart, and the last session will take place 3 weeks apart from the third session.

The characteristics of the group (frequency, duration, number of sessions and participants) were built on data from the literature as well as on clinical feedback from a first pilot group conducted in January and February 2024 on the Toulouse pediatric unit by the two therapists who will lead the groups during the study.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Exclusion Criteria

• (1) Opposition from the participant and/or from their legal representatives.
• (2) Non-fluent French speaker
• (3) Clinical presentation not compatible with the group sessions

• Minimum Eligible Age: 8 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

University Hospital, Toulouse

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Antoine STOCKER, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital, Toulouse

Locations

UH Toulouse

Toulouse, , France

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

France

Central Contacts

Antoine STOCKER, MD

Role: CONTACT

stocker.a@chu-toulouse.fr

05 61 77 22 33

Facility Contacts

Amélie Poinsard, MD RESIDENT

Role: primary

amelie.poinsard@free.fr

06.76.61.18.66

Other Identifiers

RC31/24/0181

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id