NCT05105308

Chompions! A Treatment Study for Childhood Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 203 (actual)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Months – 119 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a disorder that affects toddlers, children, adolescents, and adults. Individuals with ARFID are not able to consume an adequate amount or variety of food to a degree that it affects their mental and/or physical health. ARFID often begins in early childhood so it is important to treat children in early in life as possible to prevent any negative consequences of poor nutrition. There are currently no treatments for young children with ARFID. The investigators have developed two different study programs and the purpose of this study is to test them out and see if they help children with ARFID and to learn more about how these study programs work.

Conditions

• ARFID
• Picky Eating
• Eating Disorders in Children

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Assisted Diet (FAD)	A behavioral intervention consisting of helping parents renourish their child and conduct food exposures with new foods.
BEHAVIORAL	Feeling and Body Investigator_ARFID Division (FBI-ARFID)	A sensory and somatic focused intervention that educates children about feelings and bodily sensations, in-session exposures to body and food sensations, different strategies to improve generalization while at home, and strategies to help them understand and track experiences exploring food.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-10
• Primary completion: 2025-09-29
• Completion: 2025-09-29
• First posted: 2021-11-03
• Last updated: 2026-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States