Culinary Art Therapy Group for Adults With Eating Disorders.

Culinary Art Therapy Group for Adults With Eating Disorders: Assessment of Influence on Thinking, Patterns and Behaviour Related to Food.

The study will assess the influence of culinary art therapy group (a new therapeutic tool) for adults with eating disorders. It will assess changes in thinking patterns and behavioural patterns associated with food and eating.

Study Overview

• Status: Enrolling by invitation
• Conditions: Cognitive Change; Eating Disorders; Behavior, Eating; Relationship, Family
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Culinary art therapy

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 52
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Jerusalem, Israel
    • Eating disorders outpatients department, Hadassah Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• A diagnosis of eating disorder
• Body Mass Index (BMI) > 15

Exclusion Criteria:

• No active participation in three group sessions
• Refusal to take an active part in the sessions

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Culinary Art Therapy Group; Patients with eating disorders that will participate in a weekly session of culinary art therapy group.	Other: Culinary art therapy; Culinary art therapy is a novel approach which broadly perceives food and cooking as enabling participants to explore needs, patterns and relationships and facilitate therapeutic processes.
No Intervention: No Culinary Art Therapy Intervention; Patients with eating disorders that are not scheduled to come to the outpatients ward on the day of intervention.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)	This is a screening measure to help determine whether a person might have an eating disorder that needs professional attention. This screening measure is not designed to make a diagnosis of an eating disorder or take the place of a professional consultation.	3 months
Eating & Meal Preparation Skills Questionnaire (EMPSA)	The EMPSA is a 12-item self-report assessment tool designed to measure eating disordered clients' perceived ability and motivation to perform 12 eating and meal preparation tasks.	3 months
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)	The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) assesses global self-esteem and sense of self-worthiness.	3 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Assessment of Communication and Interaction Skills (ACIS)	The ACIS is an observational assessment that gathers data on communication and interaction skills. Three domains, physicality, information exchange, and relations, are used to describe different aspects of communication and interaction. The ACIS gathers data on skill as it is exhibited during performance in an occupational form and/or within a social group.	3 months
Individual semi-structured interview	Interviews aimed to allow each participant to relate to his or her own experience in a more independent and possibly safer setting.	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization
• Collaborators: University of Haifa
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Adi Stern, Dr., University of Haifa

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 11, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): September 1, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 31, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 31, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): September 4, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 23, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 21, 2021
• Last Verified: February 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0482-20-HMO

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