Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Eating Disorders

Region Östergötland

Status: Completed

Conditions: Skill, Coping; Eating Disorders; Emotions

Treatments: Behavioral: An Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04148014

2017/472-32

Details and patient eligibility

About

Emotion regulation difficulties appear to play a role in the development and maintenance of several eating disorders. This pilot study aims at examining whether a short add-on group skills training in emotion regulation for young adults with different eating disorders is feasible in a psychiatric clinical setting. We also investigate if the treatment increases knowledge of emotions, and decreases self-reported difficulties with emotion regulation, alexithymia, symptoms of eating disorder, anxiety and depression, as well as clinical impairment.

Six skills training groups were piloted with a total of 29 participants (M = 21.41 years, SD = 1.92). The treatment consists of five sessions dealing with psychoeducation about emotions and emotion regulation skills training. Paired samples t-test was used to compare differences between before-and-after measures.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being enrolled as a patient at the eating disorder unit at eh child- and adolescent psychiatric clinic in Linköping, Sweden
• Having an eating disorder diagnosis as primary diagnosis.
• Being between the ages of 18-25 years
• Having sufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of schizophrenia
• Clinical diagnosis of psychosis
• Clinical diagnosis of severe autism spectrum disorder
• Having a cognitive disability
• Having ongoing drug or alcohol abuse
• Clinical diagnosis of bipolar disorder
• Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 1 patient group

Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a 5 session once a week group emotion regulation skills training adjacent to treatment as usual provided by the eating disorder unit at the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic, Linköping, Sweden.

Treatment:

Behavioral: An Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training