Active clinical trials for "Feeding and Eating Disorders"

Antenatal absent or reversed end-diastolic flow (AREDF) velocity through the umbilical arteries places preterm infants at significant risk for developing gastrointestinal complications, such as feeding intolerance, necrotizing enterocolitis or spontaneous intestinal perforation. Due to the fear of the aforementioned conditions, the establishment of adequate enteral feeds is frequently hampered in this population. Previous postnatal Doppler studies have shown that AREDF preterm infants who later developed feeding intolerance have a decreased blood flow velocity in the superior mesenteric artery in response to the first enteral feed; to date, however, it is not known whether this hemodynamic impairment persists over time, or if it is associated with reduced splanchnic oxygenation and perfusion, monitored by Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). This observational prospective study aims: to assess the patterns of abdominal oxygenation and perfusion in response to enteral feeds in AREDF preterm infants at different phases of enteral feeding establishment; to evaluate a possible correlation with the development of gastrointestinal complications.

This study will investigate neural activation patterns in emotion- and cognition-related brain regions during an emotion regulation task involving cognitive reappraisal, and their associations with age and pubertal status, among overweight children and adolescents with loss of control eating as compared to overweight and normal-weight controls.

The practice of checking gastric residuals is not evidence based. The amount of gastric residual volume (GRV) does not correlate with either feeding intolerance or development of NEC. We hypothesize that not monitoring GRV in infants with birth weights < 1,250 g, and who are being fed intermittently by gastric tube, will result in earlier attainment of full feeding. This is an unblinded randomized controlled trial where GRV will not be checked routinely in the intervention group.

This study uses a computational task to examine differences in adaptive learning to both rewards and punishments between three groups: those who have recovered from anorexia nervosa, those who score highly on the EAT-26 (Eating Attitudes Test - 26 item version; an eating disorder symptom scale), and healthy controls. This task also allows the examination of pupil response (thought to reflect norepinephrine activity) in response to expected and unexpected wins and losses.

Assessing 5 different milk derived proteins versus placebo for appetite regulation and satiety, delivered via shake vehicle.

A technique that has been found to be effective at relieving the physical and psychological symptoms associated with inhibiting emotions and emotional thoughts is written emotional disclosure. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of written emotional disclosure on the remediation of eating disorder behaviour, cognitions, and management of emotions.

A cluster randomized field trial to evaluate the impact that training healthcare workers in healthy feeding practices has on the nutrition and health of children.

This study will determine whether the disturbances in cholecystokinin release and gastric emptying that occur in people with binge eating disorder are similar to those that occur in people with bulimia nervosa.

The purpose of this study is to better investigate the efficacy of the PRIDE Body Project in respect to preventing eating disorders in sexual minority men. In this randomized controlled trial, participants will be enrolled in one of two arms: 1) the PRIDE Body Project intervention or 2) Media Advocacy, a time and attention-matched intervention. This study will recruit participants who are between the ages of 18 and 35, identify as men, are gay, bisexual, or experience sexual attraction to men, and who express body image concerns for the San Diego area.

Action research has been developed in this direction in order to use a tool to identify food disorder behavior among obese youths in their neighborhoods and social centers in vulnerable neighborhoods of Marseille, with the aim of a multi-professional therapeutic management (psychosocial support, theater) and a specialized orientation. This program consists of the participation of each patient recruited in collective workshops. A total of 60 patients considered. Our hypothesis lies in the fact that for young people to participate in an adapted device, taking into account the global needs of young people and their entourage, would limit the deleterious effects of obesity and promote the young person's autonomy and allow him to be a actor in the request for care. The project's objective is to provide support in the form of workshops with patients identified by the Marseille Hospitals Public Assistance Health Center as obese children and adolescents, in a precarious situation; to identify the presence of binge eating disorders and evaluate the impact of participation in these workshops on subsequent management by highly specialized professionals in food disorder behavior.