Investigation of Psycho-Physiological Parameters in Adolescent Inpatients With Anorexia Nervosa

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status

Completed

Conditions

Anorexia Nervosa

Treatments

Other: Integrative medicine-based multimodal treatment

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04083989

ANS_01

Details and patient eligibility

About

A study to assess changes in mental and physical symptoms in adolescent inpatients with anorexia nervosa, a severe eating disorder.

Full description

This is a prospective controlled trial to assess changes in psycho-physiological parameters, including eating disorder features (drive for thinness, body dissatisfaction) and comorbid symptoms such as anxiety, depression and quality of life as well as heart rate variability, body warmth and BMI in adolescent inpatients with anorexia nervosa. Parameters were assessed at admission, six weeks after admission and three months thereafter and compared to reference values of healthy controls.

Enrollment

80 patients

Sex

All

Ages

11 to 18 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age 11-18 years
Restrictive subtype of adolescent AN
Fulfilling the AN diagnostic criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV and V)
Admitted to the Filderklinik for inpatient treatment

Exclusion criteria

Patients diagnosed with the binge-purge subtype of adolescent AN or with other eating disorders
Healthy controls: BMI beyond the defined norm for their age group
Healthy controls: acute or chronic disorders including psychiatric disorders, heart defects, cardiac arrhythmia, other disorders requiring medication