Equine-assisted Therapy and Anorexia Nervosa

Completed

• Conditions: Equine-Assisted Therapy; Anorexia Nervosa

• Registration Number: NCT06393491
• Lead Sponsor: Institut Mutualiste Montsouris

Brief Summary

Background: Severe anorexia nervosa is a complex psychiatric pathology with limited therapeutic tools to reduce morbidity and mortality. Equine-assisted therapy could provide additional therapeutic benefits.

Objectives : The investigators aimed to explore the effects of equine assisted therapy on the experience of adolescents with severe anorexia nervosa.

Méthods : Using a qualitative approach based on Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, the investigators conducted semi-structured interviews with nine participants who had taken part in equine-assisted therapy sessions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-11-02
• Primary Completion: 2022-05-30
• Study Completion: 2022-05-30
• Status Verified: 2024-03
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-29
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-29
• Study First Posted: 2024-05-01
• Last Update Posted: 2024-05-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 9

Inclusion Criteria

• having participated in at least 2 equine-assisted therapy sessions
• being or having been hospitalised between 2016 and 2022 in the psychiatric hospitalisation unit of the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris)
• ICD 10 diagnosis F50.0/ F.50.1
• female gender
• age between 13 and 25
• fluent French
• consent (including parents if minor participant)

Exclusion Criteria

• having been under the care of C. Lepy (resident) during hospitalisation at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris)
• refusal to participate on the part of the participant or the holder of parental authority.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Semi-structured face-to-face interviews of patients was carried out using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method.	Between November 2020 and May 2022, when participants had completed at least 2 sessions of equine-assisted therapy during a hospitalization for anorexia nervosa	Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method : this method explores people's perception of experience and how they make sense of it.; IPA is based on three epistemological foundations: phenomenology, hermeneutics and ideography. The phenomenological approach seeks to explore the participant's understanding of the world. Hermeneutics assumes the interpretive dimensions of the results, both in the participant's access to their own experience, and in the researcher's access to the participant's perception of the world.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Institut Mutualiste Montsouris; 🇫🇷 Paris, France