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Restrictive Eating Disorders: From Childhood Orality Disorder to Adolescent Dysensoriality

Completed
Conditions
Eating Disorders in Adolescence
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Interventions
Other: Sensory Processing Scale Inventory (SPSI)
Other: Autism Spectrum Screening Quotient (ASSQ)
Other: GAD 7
Other: Conners abridged
Other: EAT 26
Registration Number
NCT05091983
Lead Sponsor
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Brief Summary

This study offers to determine whether adolescent patients with a restrictive eating disorder have variations in their sensoriality compared to a control group.

Detailed Description

Eating disorders are a frequent reason for consultation in pediatrics at all ages.

When they are small, children may have an orality disorder. There are multiple potential causes for this disorder: psychogenic, oropraxic but also sensory. The treatment is then adapted to the patient, with, among other things, an orientation towards professionals trained in sensory disorders.

As they grow up, adolescents are particularly at risk of developing eating disorders, which are pathologies that correspond to a biopsychosocial model of understanding that includes psychogenetic, neuroendocrine and immune factors.

Despite major advances in the understanding of this disease, the sensory dimension for these patients is still little studied and is not taken into account in the treatment proposed to adolescents suffering from eating disorders.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
29
Inclusion Criteria
  • Adolescent between 12 to 18 years old.
  • Non-opposition of the adolescent and his or her legal guardians collected before the start of the study.
  • Patient group: Diagnosis of restrictive eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa typical or atypical, ARFID) meeting DSM-5 criteria.
  • Control group: absence of eating disorders.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Eating disorders secondary to another psychiatric pathology.
  • Precarious health status with somatic and/or psychiatric instability that does not allow to answer the questionnaire.
  • Language barrier.
  • Opposition of the adolescent and/or his/her legal representatives obtained before the start of the study
  • Patient under " AME " (medical state help)

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Restrictive eating disorder groupSensory Processing Scale Inventory (SPSI)Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. Restrictive eating disorders diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa or ARFID) answering DSM-5 criteria
Control groupGAD 7Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. No eating disorders
Restrictive eating disorder groupGAD 7Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. Restrictive eating disorders diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa or ARFID) answering DSM-5 criteria
Restrictive eating disorder groupConners abridgedAdolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. Restrictive eating disorders diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa or ARFID) answering DSM-5 criteria
Restrictive eating disorder groupEAT 26Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. Restrictive eating disorders diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa or ARFID) answering DSM-5 criteria
Restrictive eating disorder groupAutism Spectrum Screening Quotient (ASSQ)Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. Restrictive eating disorders diagnosis (Anorexia Nervosa or ARFID) answering DSM-5 criteria
Control groupSensory Processing Scale Inventory (SPSI)Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. No eating disorders
Control groupAutism Spectrum Screening Quotient (ASSQ)Adolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. No eating disorders
Control groupConners abridgedAdolescents between 12 and 18 y.o. No eating disorders
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Average Sensory Processing Scale Inventory (SPSI) scores between the two groupsInclusion

Comparison of average Sensory Processing Scale Inventory (SPSI) scores between the two groups This questionnaire focuses on sensoriality. It allows the definition of over or under-reactive sensory profiles. It is made of two lists (list #1 : 73 items ; list #2 : 29 items).

The SPSI questionnaire is in English. For this reason, a group of experts from La Maison de Solenn met to translate it into French being as faithful as possible to the original questionnaire. Each checklist has its own score, the result is the sum of the points obtained (one point for YES, zero points for NO) (6).

Two groups will be formed: a group with eating disorders and a control group. The questionnaire will be answered only once and will be proposed to the participant at the end of a consultation at the Maison de Solenn for his usual follow-up or during a hospitalization (full time hospitalization or in day hospital).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Screening for pathologies known to be associated with a sensory disorderInclusion

Screening questionnaires for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) will be distributed in order to identify disorders associated with a particular sensory profile. This will allow statistical results to be refined by performing multivariate analyses.

Search for a link between the eating disorders severity and sensory disordersInclusion

The EAT 26 questionnaire is used to measure the severity of an eating disorder. It will be proposed only to the participants of the eating disorder group.

This measure of severity will assess whether there is a relationship between the severity of the ED and the severity of the sensory disorders.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Maison de Solenn Maison des Adolescents, Cochin Hospital

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Paris, IDF, France

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