NCT05840614

The Remote Family Support Programs for Eating Disorders

The Effectiveness of a Remote Family Support Programs for Families of Patients With Eating Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 67 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nagoya City University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Eating disorders are serious mental health disorders associated with high levels of mortality, disability, physical and psychological morbidity, and impaired quality of life. Family members who spend the majority of their time with patients of eating disorders experience heavy psychological burden. Remote family support programs consist of interpersonal psychotherapy and family psychoeducation. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of a remote family support program for eating disorders in an RCT (randomized controlled trial). The specific objective was to conduct a small pilot RCT of the remote family support program (n=28) compared with TAU (n=28).

Conditions

• Eating Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	The remote family support program	Remote family support programs consist of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) and family psychoeducation. Each session consisted of a lecture, followed by role playing and supportive group therapy. In the first session, we informed the participants about the symptoms of eating disorders and mechanism of IPT; in the second session, we shared details about the characteristics of adolescents; and during the third and fourth sessions, we provided information on effective communication according to IPT.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-18
• Primary completion: 2024-08-30
• Completion: 2024-10-30
• First posted: 2023-05-03
• Last updated: 2025-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Japan