Preparing for Eating Disorders Treatment Through Compassionate Letter-Writing
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- Enrolling By Invitation
- 入组人数
- 160
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt Scale (WEB-SG)
研究概览
简要总结
Compassion-focused therapy (CFT) seeks to lower shame and help people develop compassion for personal distress and shortcomings. There is increasing evidence to support the benefits of incorporating CFT-based interventions into the treatment of eating disorders (EDs). Building on the investigators' prior research, this study will examine the effects of a two-week CFT-based self-compassion letter-writing intervention on patients with eating disorders. Participants will be recruited from the wait-list of patients scheduled to begin treatment at the outpatient St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Eating Disorders Program, and will be randomly assigned to the two-week letter-writing intervention or to a control group. Results will inform the integration of new empirically-derived interventions into ED treatments to improve the currently dismal rates of ED recovery.
详细描述
The study consists of two phases. In phase one, participants will be randomly assigned to a two-week daily letter-writing intervention condition or a two-week control condition; phase one will occur two to four weeks prior to the start date of group ED treatment. Participants will complete a brief set of online questionnaires pre-, mid-, and post- two-week condition (i.e. baseline, after one week, and after two weeks).
Following these two weeks of intervention/control condition, all participants will complete a 25-week group treatment program as scheduled by the Eating Disorders Program. For phase two of the study, participants will be asked to complete questionnaires after 5 weeks, after 11 weeks, and post-group treatment. Data that is routinely collected as part of patients' clinical care pre- and post-treatment (i.e. on the first day and last week of group treatment) will also be collected.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Care Provider)
盲法说明
The care providers will not be told which condition each participant was assigned to.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 17 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •DSM-5 diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder
- •Eligible to start group eating disorders treatment at St. Joseph's Eating Disorder Program
- •17 years of age or older
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Control condition
Self-compassionate letter-writing intervention
An online self-compassionate letter-writing task once per day (10-20 minutes each) for 2 weeks
干预措施: Self-compassionate letter-writing intervention (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt Scale (WEB-SG)
时间窗: Change from baseline to post-2 weeks of intervention/control condition
Self-report questionnaire with 12 questions on a 5-point Likert scale (scored 0-4). Total scores range from 0-48, with higher decrease in score indicative of a better outcome (i.e. higher decrease in levels of shame and guilt).
Readiness to Change Eating Behaviours
时间窗: Change from baseline to post-2 weeks of intervention/control condition
Self-report questionnaire with 3 questions on a 10-point Likert scale (scored 1-10). Total scores range from 3-30, with higher increase in score indicative of a better outcome (i.e. higher increase in readiness to change disordered eating behaviours).
Self-compassion Scale (short form; SCS-SF)
时间窗: Change from baseline to post-2 weeks of intervention/control condition
Self-report questionnaire with 12 questions on a 5-point Likert scale (scored 1-5). Total scores range from 12-60, with higher increase in score indicative of a better outcome (i.e. higher increase in levels of self-compassion).
次要结局
- Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)(Change from day 1 to week 25 of group eating disorder treatment)
- Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA)(Change from day 1 to week 25 of group eating disorder treatment)
研究者
Allison Kelly
Associate Professor
University of Waterloo