NCT04148014

Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training for Eating Disorders

Emotion Regulation Group Skills Training: A Pilot Study of an add-on Treatment for Eating Disorders in a Clinical Setting

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Region Östergötland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Emotion regulation difficulties appear to play a role in the development and maintenance of several eating disorders. This pilot study aims at examining whether a short add-on group skills training in emotion regulation for young adults with different eating disorders is feasible in a psychiatric clinical setting. We also investigate if the treatment increases knowledge of emotions, and decreases self-reported difficulties with emotion regulation, alexithymia, symptoms of eating disorder, anxiety and depression, as well as clinical impairment. Six skills training groups were piloted with a total of 29 participants (M = 21.41 years, SD = 1.92). The treatment consists of five sessions dealing with psychoeducation about emotions and emotion regulation skills training. Paired samples t-test was used to compare differences between before-and-after measures.

Conditions

• Eating Disorders
• Emotions
• Skill, Coping

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	An Adjunctive Emotion Regulation Skills Training	The adjunctive emotion regulation skills training is delivered in a group format once a week during 5 weeks to young adults with eating disorders together with treatment as usual

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-04-30
• First posted: 2019-11-01
• Last updated: 2019-11-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden