Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) for Parents With Eating Disorders

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Behavior; Eating Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Parent-based prevention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04254068

29032

Details and patient eligibility

About

Parents with eating disorders exhibit greater concerns and dilemmas about developing healthy habits in their children. Studies indicate that the offspring of parents with eating disorders have more developmental and interpersonal difficulties. Consequently, these parents should receive personalized care to enhance their parental capacity and support them in their decision making process. The Parent-Based Prevention of Eating Disorders (PBP) is a promising intervention that may help improve feeding and eating practices and children outcomes, by engaging both parents in a short-term program. This study aims to empirically evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of PBP over a wait-list control group (i.e., treatment-as-usual) in a Randomized Case Series Trial.

Full description

A parental history of an eating disorder is linked with greater risk of eating and socio-emotional problems in the offspring, and more stressful parent-child interactions. Further, parenting concerns often exacerbate existing eating disorder symptoms in parents. Parent-Based Prevention (PBP-B) is a focused intervention aimed to support parents with eating disorders and their partners in developing healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors in their children. The program also focuses on reducing mealtime conflict and improving couple communication. This study tests the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of the Parent-Based Prevention (PBP) program for these parents and their partners. Parents with any lifetime eating disorder diagnosis who have at least one child 1-5 years old will be randomized to receive PBP immediately or following a 16-week waitlist period. This study will investigate whether PBP is feasible, acceptable, and associated with improvement in short-term outcomes that predict long term risks of eating and weight disorders (e.g., parental cognition associated with feeding practices and child eating behaviors and socio-emotional symptoms). The study will collect important case series data that will inform the design of larger, adequately powered studies to test ways to reduce the likelihood of eating and weight difficulties in the offspring of parents with eating disorders.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• A biological parent of a child between 1-5 years of age.
• A lifetime diagnosis of an eating disorder.

Exclusion criteria

* Current medical condition necessitating more intensive care to manage symptoms.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

Parent based prevention

Experimental group

Description:

Parent-Based Prevention (PBP; Sadeh-Sharvit \& Lock, 2018) is a manualized preventive intervention, focused on increasing parental awareness and competence to facilitate healthy eating habits, body image, and self-regulation in children whose parent has an eating disorder history. PBP is comprised of three phases that focus on unique goals. The strategies in each session include psycho-education, behavioral experiment planning, and skill practicing to augment parents' insight into how the context of the parental cognitions and behaviors may impact child outcomes, with the goal of creating a longstanding effect.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Parent-based prevention

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Families randomized to usual care will be permitted to utilize any medical, psychological, or nutritional services they desire for the waitlist period of 16 weeks.