Mayo Clinic
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of a RCT of a new treatment for children and adolescents with eating disorders characterized by dietary restriction and/or weight loss or failure to gain expected weight. The treatment, which is called Family-Based Treatment for Primary Care (or FBT-PC for short), is based on Family-Based Treatment, the gold standard outpatient eating disorder treatment for children and adolescents.
In the United States, half a million adolescents suffer from an eating disorder. With only 66 certified providers nationally, Family-Based Treatment (FBT), a first-line evidence-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders, is not readily available to most families. This provider shortage leaves most young patients without care and undoubtedly contributes to the chronicity and lethality of these conditions. Patients with eating disorders generally make their first contact with the healthcare system in primary care. As such, equipping primary care providers (PCPs) with effective means to tre…
Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of a DSM-5 restrictive eating disorder (anorexia nervosa or other specified feeding or eating disorder characterized by dietary restriction and/or weight loss or failure to make expected weight gains). * Eligible patients will have at least one caregiver who is also willing to participate in the study. * Eligible patients must receive primary care through the MCHS Exclusion Criteria: * Patients will be excluded who have received FBT in the past, and/or who report active suicidality. * Patients who become physically or psychiatrically unstable during the study…
Novel treatment that borrows key intervention strategies from standard family-based treatment. It uses trained primary care providers (PCPs), in consultation with a mental health provider, to deliver family-based treatment strategies in community-based clinics to increase caregiver self-efficacy to reverse their child's dietary restriction and weight loss.
Delivered by a mental health provider in a traditional mental health or eating disorder specialty setting. First-line evidence-based treatment for adolescent eating disorders that targets caregiver self-efficacy as a mechanism to facilitate weight restoration and ultimately symptom remission in adolescents.
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