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Investigating the thinking styles and emotion processing in people with anorexia nervosa before and after a social cognitive intervention; in people with anorexia nervosa receiving treatment as usual; in people with bulimia nervosa and healthy controls.

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Topic: Mental Health Research Network
Subtopic: Eating disorders
Disease: Eating disorders
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Anorexia nervosa
Registration Number
ISRCTN92765046
Lead Sponsor
King's College London (KCL) (UK)
Brief Summary

2011 qualitative results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21441359/ (added 10/08/2020) 2012 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22431401/ (added 10/08/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
81
Inclusion Criteria

Anorexia nervosa group:
1. Participants must be clinically diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa as defined by DSM-IV
2. Patients with symptoms of anxiety and depression will still be included

Recovered from eating disorder group:
3. Normal weight (body mass index [BMI] 18.5 - 24.9 kg/m^2)
4. Regular menstruation
5. Absence of eating disorder behaviours such as binging, purging and restricting

All groups:
6. Aged 18 years or over, either sex

Exclusion Criteria

All groups:
1. Under the age of 18 years
2. Severe suicidal ideation
3. History of brain trauma, learning disabilities
4. Unable to provide informed consent for themselves
5. English is not the first language

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> 1. Body Mass Index (BMI)<br> 2. Eating Disorder Questionnaire (EDE-Q)<br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<br> 1. Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS)<br> 2. Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)<br> 3. Emotion expressivity scale<br> 4. National Adult Reading Test (NART)<br> 5. Obsessive Compulsive Inventory (OCI-R)<br> 6. Participants will take part in a series of paper based and computerised assessments<br> 7. Social Anhedonia scale<br>
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