Evaluation of Hoarding Behaviour and Eating Disorders Among Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants

"Hoarding "is a common behavior among Holocaust survivors and is related to the traumatic events they have experienced, and we assume that storage behavior and eating disorders are related to future generations of Holocaust survivors.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Hoarding Disorder

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 1000

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Germany and Israel Their direct offspring and their children (second and third generation)

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Germany and Israel who have expressed their written and written consent to participate in monitoring and testing, and who are able to answer the research questionnaires.

   • Their direct offspring and their children (second and third generation)

2. The control population - non-Jewish subjects who are not the descendants of Holocaust survivors living in Germany who have expressed their written and oral consent to participate in monitoring and testing and who are able to answer the research questionnaires and whose parents were not imprisoned in the camps second.

Exclusion Criteria:

• (Participants who do not agree to participate (did not sign informed consent form
• Respondents who are unable to answer interviewer questions
• Non-Jewish subjects whose parents were in camps (ie prisoner camps, labor camps, etc.) during the second war.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

3

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Group 1; At least 200 Jewish Holocaust survivors of the first generation living in Germany and Israel - an equal number in each country
Group 2; The second generation, whose parents lived in Europe during the Second World War, now live in Germany (originating from Western and Eastern Europe) - at least 200 participants.
Group 3; Third generation of Jewish Holocaust survivors who participated in the first phase, currently living in Germany and Israel - at least 200 participants including at least 100 subjects in each country. These are adults only. The research program does not include children and adolescents

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Hoarding	Questionnaire that will follow behaviour over generations	Three years

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Anticipated): January 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2022
• Study Completion (Anticipated): January 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 10, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 10, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): December 11, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 11, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 10, 2018
• Last Verified: December 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Hoarding Disorder
• Other Study ID Numbers: HYMC-0083-18

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No