Pilates Program in Female Adolescent With Eating Disorders (PITCA)

Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorder; Female Adolescents

Treatments: Other: Pilates

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03667183

UniversidadPO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical exercise helps patients with eating disorders by improving their physical fitness, quality of life and other specific variables of this pathology. Pilates has a beneficial effect both physically and mentally on healthy population and other diseases. In patients with eating disorder, Pilates will improve psychic aspects and their physical condition. For all these reasons, the affectation of psychological symptoms will decrease and the quality of life will improve.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 10 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1. clinical diagnosis of EDs in the aforementioned hospital;
• 2. aged from 10 to 17 years old;
• 3. written informed consent by the patients and their legal guardians

Exclusion criteria

• 1. have other diagnoses of mental illness or
• 2. consumption of narcotic toxins

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

Pilates Group

Experimental group

Description:

Female adolescents with eating disorders who receive Pilates for 10 weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Pilates