NCT00877994

Nurture: A Program for Mothers With Histories of Disordered Eating

Breaking the Cycle of Risk: Intervention for Mothers With Eating Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nurture is a collaborative pilot study for mothers of children under the age of 3 who have suffered from disordered eating in the past. It is coordinated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and Virginia Commonwealth University and sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Nurture hopes to promote confident parenting and a positive meal times.

Detailed description

Mothers who have struggled with disordered eating or body image struggles are often concerned how best to provide proper nutrition to their child and/or model healthy eating behavior. We have developed a curriculum that provides information about how to establish healthy eating patterns and social support for mothers with children under three years of age. The curriculum will be delivered in a support group format led by co-therapists affiliated with the UNC Eating Disorder Program.

Conditions

• Eating Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Nurture Support Group Therapy	Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to either receive the curriculum immediately (immediate group) or at a later time point approximately 16 weeks later (delayed group). Both groups will receive 16, 90 minute long group sessions delivered over 4 months. Groups will include 4-8 mothers and one or two co-therapists.
BEHAVIORAL	Group therapy	Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) to either receive the curriculum immediately (immediate group) or at a later time point approximately 16 weeks later (delayed group). Both groups will receive 16, 90 minute long group sessions delivered over 4 months. Groups will include 4-8 mothers and one or two co-therapists. The curriculum will focus on increasing positive healthy eating patterns in children of mothers who have had disordered eating and body image struggles.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2009-04-08
• Last updated: 2016-05-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States