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Effectiveness of the ECHOs Approach for Patients With Eating Disorders and Their Carers (ECHO)

16 de julio de 2018 actualizado por: Aaron Keshen, Nova Scotia Health Authority

Effectiveness of the Expert Carers Helping Others (ECHOs) Approach for Patients With Eating Disorders and Their Carers

Family therapy is considered an empirically supported treatment approach for adolescents and adults with eating disorders. One family based approach, Expert Carers Helping Others (ECHO) is based on evidence that suggests family environment, e.g., carer criticism, can influence an individual's eating disorder symptoms. ECHO aims to improve carer coping, reduce expressed emotion and manage eating disorder symptoms, and has been associated with reduced carer distress, caregiver burden, and an increase in general well being. The current pilot study seeks to evaluate a new condensed version of the ECHO intervention that is delivered entirely in a 2 ½ hour self-help DVD format (ECHOs). Sixty patients and their carers will be recruited from the Capital Health Eating Disorders Service and randomized into either a treatment as usual group (TAU) or a TAU+ECHOs group. Both carers and patients will be assessed along a variety of dimensions including psychiatric symptoms, family functioning, and carer and patient collaboration, at pre-intervention, four weeks later at post-intervention, and then three-months post-intervention. ANOVAs will be used to compare the primary outcomes between the two groups over time. This pilot study will be the first evaluation of ECHOs, which may ultimately boost the efficacy of current treatment for adults with eating disorders and reduce carer distress.

Descripción general del estudio

Estado

Terminado

Condiciones

Intervención / Tratamiento

Tipo de estudio

Intervencionista

Inscripción (Actual)

58

Fase

  • No aplica

Contactos y Ubicaciones

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Ubicaciones de estudio

  • Canadá
    • Nova Scotia
      • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canadá, B3H2E2
        • Capital Health District Health Authority

Criterios de participación

Los investigadores buscan personas que se ajusten a una determinada descripción, denominada criterio de elegibilidad. Algunos ejemplos de estos criterios son el estado de salud general de una persona o tratamientos previos.

Criterio de elegibilidad

Edades elegibles para estudiar

17 años y mayores (Niño, Adulto, Adulto Mayor)

Acepta Voluntarios Saludables

No

Géneros elegibles para el estudio

Todos

Descripción

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with an ED (AN, BN, EDNOS) according to DSM-V criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as determined by standard clinical interview completed by team psychiatrist or clinical psychologist.
  • Patients age of >17y.o.
  • Carers can include parents/partners/siblings/extended family who provide unpaid help and support. Peers and roommates could also be included in circumstances within which they play a significant role in the person's life and meet the following criteria:
  • Live with or have regular, current contact with the patient (at least 7 hours/week) throughout the duration of the trial (approximately 6months).
  • Interact with the patient in some meaningful manner regarding their ED (e.g. provide support, eat meals together, discussions about behaviours).
  • Consent from patient and at least one carer

Exclusion Criteria:

  • ED comorbid with severe psychiatric or physical comorbidity: e.g. current psychotic illness (inc. bipolar disorder), severe alcohol/drug abuse, significant metabolic or gastrointestinal problems (i.e. treatment interfering) as determined by standard clinical interview completed by team psychiatrist or clinical psychologist.
  • Family in a concurrent treatment trial.
  • Either patient or carer has insufficient knowledge of English.

Plan de estudios

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¿Cómo está diseñado el estudio?

Detalles de diseño

  • Propósito principal: Tratamiento
  • Asignación: Aleatorizado
  • Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
  • Enmascaramiento: Único

Armas e Intervenciones

Grupo de participantes/brazo
Intervención / Tratamiento
Experimental: Expert Cares Helping Others plus Treatment as Usual
The experimental treatment (ECHOs plus TAU) will consist of the standard treatment consisting of group psychotherapy and skills training, nutritional counselling, and meal support, PLUS self-help unguided DVD series for carers, providing education about eating disorders and coping strategies for supporting those living with eating disorders.
Conductual: ECHOs plus TAU
A self-help DVD that provides information for carers on eating disorders and teaches coping strategies to carers.
Otros nombres:
  • Expert Carers Helping Others plus Treatment as Usual
Comparador activo: Treatment as Usual
Treatment as usual (TAU) consists of group psychotherapy and skills training, nutritional counselling, and meal support.
Conductual: Treatment as Usual
Treatment as Usual at the Eating Disorder Services includes group psychotherapy and skills training, nutritional counselling, and meal support.
Otros nombres:
  • TAU

¿Qué mide el estudio?

Medidas de resultado primarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Changes in Carer and Patient Collaboration Scale (CPCS).
Periodo de tiempo: baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
A scale to assess self efficacy in caregiving, specifically tailored to measure the skills taught in the ECHOs intervention. This scale will assess changes from baseline to post-internvention in caregiver efficacy.
baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
Changes in Short Evaluation of Eating Disorders (SEED)
Periodo de tiempo: baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
This measure will asssess changes in the severity of key anorexic and bulimic symptoms from baseline to post-treatment, and follow-up.
baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up

Medidas de resultado secundarias

Medida de resultado
Medida Descripción
Periodo de tiempo
Depression, Stress and Anxiety Scale (DASS-21)
Periodo de tiempo: baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
a measure of severity of anxiety, depression and stress pre- to post-treatment
baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
The Family Questionnaire (FQ)
Periodo de tiempo: baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up
20-item self report measure of expressed emotion in carers. Scores are given on a 4-point Likert scale and will measure the levels of expressed emotion from pre-intervention to post-intervention.
baseline, 4-weeks post-intervention, 3 months follow-up

Colaboradores e Investigadores

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Patrocinador

Nova Scotia Health Authority

Fechas de registro del estudio

Estas fechas rastrean el progreso del registro del estudio y los envíos de resultados resumidos a ClinicalTrials.gov. Los registros del estudio y los resultados informados son revisados ​​por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina (NLM) para asegurarse de que cumplan con los estándares de control de calidad específicos antes de publicarlos en el sitio web público.

Fechas importantes del estudio

Inicio del estudio (Actual)

1 de abril de 2014

Finalización primaria (Actual)

1 de diciembre de 2017

Finalización del estudio (Actual)

1 de diciembre de 2017

Fechas de registro del estudio

Enviado por primera vez

15 de agosto de 2013

Primero enviado que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

21 de agosto de 2013

Publicado por primera vez (Estimar)

22 de agosto de 2013

Actualizaciones de registros de estudio

Última actualización publicada (Actual)

17 de julio de 2018

Última actualización enviada que cumplió con los criterios de control de calidad

16 de julio de 2018

Última verificación

1 de julio de 2018

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Otros números de identificación del estudio

  • 59093005
  • 59095003 (Otro identificador: Capital Health)

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