Out of body illusion in anorexia nervosa

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Conditions: anorexia nervosa
eating disorders
10014067

Registration Number: NL-OMON49778

Lead Sponsor: niversiteit Utrecht

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Withdrawn

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

Patients: Female, 18-35 years of age, diagnosed with AN, physically non-disables (i.e. able to perform the tasks during the experiment.;Controls: Female, 18-35 years of age, BMI between 19-25, no severe mental healthy problems, physically non-disables (i.e. able to perform the tasks during the experiment.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients: Use of medication that may influence task performance due to sedative effects, drowsiness of (psycho)motor impairments, comorbid dissociative disorder, Borderline personality disorder or contact disorder, pregnancy.;Controls; Use of medication that may influence task performance due to sedative effects, drowsiness of (psycho)motor impairments, pregnancy.

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary study parameter is the estimation error that participants have<br /><br>before and after induction of the OBI. We will calculate the percentage of<br /><br>misestimation for shoulders, waist, hips before the OBI is induced and after<br /><br>the OBI is induced.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>We will investigate whether the OBI does not only affect size estimation of the<br /><br>body, but whether it also affects other aspects of body image. The main study<br /><br>parameters are the score on the cognitive measure of body image (VAS scale),<br /><br>the average size estimate over all trails in the tactile measure of body image,<br /><br>the percentage of misestimation for the hoop that one's body would still fit<br /><br>through in the movement task assessing bodily action. </p><br>