Evaluation of Hoarding Behaviour and Eating Disorders Among Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hoarding Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03772301

HYMC-0083-18

Details and patient eligibility

About

"Hoarding "is a common behavior among Holocaust survivors and is related to the traumatic events they have experienced, and we assume that storage behavior and eating disorders are related to future generations of Holocaust survivors.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Jewish Holocaust survivors living in Germany and Israel who have expressed their written and written consent to participate in monitoring and testing, and who are able to answer the research questionnaires.

   • Their direct offspring and their children (second and third generation)

2. The control population - non-Jewish subjects who are not the descendants of Holocaust survivors living in Germany who have expressed their written and oral consent to participate in monitoring and testing and who are able to answer the research questionnaires and whose parents were not imprisoned in the camps second.

Exclusion criteria

• (Participants who do not agree to participate (did not sign informed consent form
• Respondents who are unable to answer interviewer questions
• Non-Jewish subjects whose parents were in camps (ie prisoner camps, labor camps, etc.) during the second war.

Trial design

1,000 participants in 3 patient groups

Group 1

Description:

At least 200 Jewish Holocaust survivors of the first generation living in Germany and Israel - an equal number in each country

Group 2

Description:

The second generation, whose parents lived in Europe during the Second World War, now live in Germany (originating from Western and Eastern Europe) - at least 200 participants.

Group 3

Description:

Third generation of Jewish Holocaust survivors who participated in the first phase, currently living in Germany and Israel - at least 200 participants including at least 100 subjects in each country. These are adults only. The research program does not include children and adolescents