The Role of a Brief Educational Video Series for Parent of Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa

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Sponsor
Baylor College of Medicine
Study ID
NCT07566546
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Anorexia Nervosa
  • Atypical Anorexia Nervosa

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
10 Years - 16 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Parent Educational Videos — BEHAVIORAL
    The PEV intervention includes four videos that a parent will watch online, each under 7 minutes. These psychoeducational videos were created by clinical psychologists specializing in treating adolescent eating disorders with Family Based Therapy techniques. The content of the videos includes: Video 1: Describes the severity of eating disorder symptoms, risk of short and long-term health problems; importance of intervention Video 2: How recovery works - Describes how eating is therapy - the role of parental food management, food exposure, etc. Video 3: Managing ED behaviors - Explains how to respond to food refusal, vomiting behaviors, over exercising behaviors, etc. Video 4: How to talk to your child when they are struggling
  • Treatment as usual for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa — BEHAVIORAL
    All study participants will receive the standard medical, nutrition, and mental health care as part of the eating disorder program at TCH. Medical and nutrition appointments typically occur every 1-3 months. Mental health appointments include 6 weeks of 3 hr/week group therapy, biweekly 1 hr a week individual therapy and biweekly 1 hr a week Family therapy.

Study Details

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a brief parent educational video series is feasible, acceptable, and effective for improving parent and patient outcomes for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa. The main questions it aims to answer are: Do parents want to watch these educational videos and find them helpful/useful ? Do parents who watch the videos report improvement in their knowledge about restrictive eating disorders and self-efficacy in helping their child recover, as well as reductions in stress and burden associated with parenting a child with anorexia? Do adolescents (ages 10-16) report improvements in their eating disorder symptoms when their parents watch these videos? Investigators will compare treatment as usual (traditional family and individual therapy with regular medical and nutrition visits) to treatment as usual plus the parent educational videos to see if the videos improve parental and patient outcomes beyond treatment as usual. Parent and adolescent participants will complete baseline measures including: Parent measures: eating disorder knowledge, self-efficacy, stress and burnout Patient (adolescent) measures: eating disorder symptoms, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms Parents will complete these measures immediately after first meeting with their child's medical doctor to confirm a diagnosis of a restrictive eating disorder and then again 3 months later. The investigators will also assess the video feasibility and acceptability by asking parents to report their satisfaction with the videos and to assess how many approached families enroll in the study.

Key Dates

Start date
Apr 14, 2026
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Dec 1, 2026
Completion
Mar 1, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
50 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT

Arms

  • Active Comparator: Treatment as Usual
    Participant receives individual and family therapy for Anorexia Nervosa, as well as regular medical and nutrition follow up appointments.
  • Experimental: Treatment as Usual + Parent Educational Videos (PEV)
    Participant receives treatment as usual plus the 4 video Parent Educational Video series (psychoeducational for parents of adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa)

Primary Outcome Measure

Feasibility: The investigators will measure feasibility by determining how many parent-adolescent dyads that meet eligibility criteria actually enroll in the study. [ Time Frame: 1 year for recruitment ]

Locations (1)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Texas Children's HospitalHoustonTexas77030-

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