Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) for Parents With Eating Disorders (PBP)

Preventing Feeding and Eating Disorders in Children of Parents With Eating Disorders: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Parents with eating disorders exhibit greater concerns and dilemmas about developing healthy habits in their children. Studies indicate that the offspring of parents with eating disorders have more developmental and interpersonal difficulties. Consequently, these parents should receive personalized care to enhance their parental capacity and support them in their decision making process. The Parent-Based Prevention of Eating Disorders (PBP) is a promising intervention that may help improve feeding and eating practices and children outcomes, by engaging both parents in a short-term program. This study aims to empirically evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of PBP over a wait-list control group (i.e., treatment-as-usual) in a Randomized Case Series Trial.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Eating Disorders; Eating Behavior
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Parent-based prevention

Detailed Description

A parental history of an eating disorder is linked with greater risk of eating and socio-emotional problems in the offspring, and more stressful parent-child interactions. Further, parenting concerns often exacerbate existing eating disorder symptoms in parents. Parent-Based Prevention (PBP-B) is a focused intervention aimed to support parents with eating disorders and their partners in developing healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors in their children. The program also focuses on reducing mealtime conflict and improving couple communication. This study tests the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of the Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) program for these parents and their partners. Parents with any lifetime eating disorder diagnosis who have at least one child 1-5 years old will be randomized to receive PBP immediately or following a 16-week waitlist period. This study will investigate whether PBP is feasible, acceptable, and associated with improvement in short-term outcomes that predict long term risks of eating and weight disorders (e.g., parental cognition associated with feeding practices and child eating behaviors and socio-emotional symptoms). The study will collect important case series data that will inform the design of larger, adequately powered studies to test ways to reduce the likelihood of eating and weight difficulties in the offspring of parents with eating disorders.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 24
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • California
    • Stanford, California, United States, 94305
      • Stanford University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• A biological parent of a child between 1-5 years of age.
• A lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Current medical condition necessitating more intensive care to manage symptoms.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Parent based prevention; Parent-Based Prevention (PBP; Sadeh-Sharvit & Lock, 2018) is a manualized preventive intervention, focused on increasing parental awareness and competence to facilitate healthy eating habits, body image, and self-regulation in children whose parent has an eating disorder history. PBP is comprised of three phases that focus on unique goals. The strategies in each session include psycho-education, behavioral experiment planning, and skill practicing to augment parents' insight into how the context of the parental cognitions and behaviors may impact child outcomes, with the goal of creating a longstanding effect.	Behavioral: Parent-based prevention; Parent-based prevention is a 12 session program for parents with eating disorders and their partners. Most sessions occur on a weekly basis, most of the sessions involve both partners.; Other Names: PBP
NO_INTERVENTION: Usual care; Families randomized to usual care will be permitted to utilize any medical, psychological, or nutritional services they desire for the waitlist period of 16 weeks.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Feasibility of recruiting parents with a lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder: Number of eligible participants that agree to participate in the study	Number of eligible participants that agree to participate in the study	Up to 48 months
Acceptability of the intervention: Client Satisfaction Questionnaire score	Mean Client Satisfaction Questionnaire score at end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-5, with higher scores indicative of greater satisfaction.	Week 12

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Parental feeding practices	Change scores of the Child Feeding Questionnaire from baseline to end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-5, with higher scores indicative of the parent endorsing more frequent behaviors on the dimension measured.	Baseline and Week 12
Child eating behaviors	Change scores of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire from baseline to end of treatment. Scores range on a Likert-like scale of 1-4, with higher scores indicative of greater endorsement of the behavior measured.	Baseline and Week 12

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Stanford University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, PhD, S

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ACTUAL): January 24, 2014
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2017
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): December 31, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 31, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): February 5, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): May 27, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 25, 2020
• Last Verified: May 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Secondary prevention; Parent-based prevention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Pathologic Processes; Disease; Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 29032

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

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