Akershus University Hospital Retrospective Cohort Study of Family Based Treatment (ARCS-FBT)

University Hospital, Akershus

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Atypical Anorexia Nervosa; Anorexia Nervosa

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Based Treatment; Behavioral: Non-manualised family therapy.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05748457

2021_182

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this observational study is to compare short and long-term effects of manualised Family Based Treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa to those of non-manualised family therapy. The study will approach former patients who were treated before and after Family Based Therapy was adopted in an outpatient clinic, and extract data from electronic health records and public registries.

Full description

A two-group retrospective exploratory cohort study with longitudinal follow-up comparing adolescents with anorexia nervosa treated with generic family therapy to those treated with the manualised Family Based Treatment (FBT). The primary aim is to investigate whether adoption of FBT has led to faster normalisation of weight and lower rates of eating disorder in early adulthood. Secondary aims are to investigate whether implementation of FBT has changed the time to discharge, heterogeneity of patient weight change across treatment, rates of adverse events, rates of readmission, patient experiences of the treatment, long term functional outcomes and mortality. Data are extracted from patient health records, reported by participants and extracted from public registries.

Enrollment: 28 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of F50.0 Anorexia nervosa or F50.1 Atypical anorexia nervosa according to the International Classification of Diseases-10.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient was treated during the years 2018-2020 and FBT was never initiated according to patient health records.

Trial design

28 participants in 2 patient groups

2015-2017

Description:

Patients treated for anorexia nervosa in the years 2015-2017 at Nedre Romerike outpatient clinic, Department of child and adolescent mental health services, Akershus university hospital.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Non-manualised family therapy.

2018-2020

Description:

Patients treated for anorexia nervosa in the years 2018-2020 at Nedre Romerike outpatient clinic, Department of child and adolescent mental health services, Akershus university hospital.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Based Treatment