None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Eating Disorders are a very serious illness with severe and psychiatric and health consequences. Current treatment outcomes are less than optimal, with room for improvement. Research is required to find out ways in which these outcomes can be improved. Research has shown that the provision of patient progress feedback to clinicians can enhance therapy outcomes, although the body of literature into the provision of feedback within an eating disorder treatment setting is minimal. This study seeks to implement a symptom based clinical feedback tool into the course of eating disorder therapy, and compare it to an already established, more general, therapy process-based feedback tool.
Interventions
A clinical feedback tool that provides a trajectory of eating disorder symptomatology for both "good" and "poor" outcomes over the course of therapy. It will be implemented into a regime of enhanced CBT for individuals with eating disorders.
A subset of Eating Disorder Examination- Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 2008) items will be administered at pre-treatment and every subsequent week during treatment. (duration 20-40 weeks). This brief questionnaire will take approximately 2-3 min
A clinical feedback tool that provides a trajectory of eating disorder symptomatology for both "good" and "poor" outcomes over the course of therapy. It will be implemented into a regime of enhanced CBT for individuals with eating disorders. A subset of Eating Disorder Examination- Questionnaire (EDE-Q; Fairburn & Beglin, 2008) items will be administered at pre-treatment and every subsequent week during treatment. (duration 20-40 weeks). This brief questionnaire will take approximately 2-3 minutes to complete. The scores will be utilised by the clinician between sessions to monitor the patient's progress. This will enable the clinician to to examine whether clients are making reliable change in their questionnaire scores (and thus eating disorder psychopathology), and to monitor when clients are approaching, or have reached, a score indicative of reaching the "healthy" range.. Patients' individual progress will be monitored weekly by the clinician.
Sponsors
University of Western Australia
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
16 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Diagnosis of an eating disorder according to DSM 5
Exclusion criteria
BMI < 14 Unsuitable for outpatient eating disorder treatment
Outcome results
None listed