Active clinical trials for "Feeding and Eating Disorders"

The aim of this research is to examine the social, psychological and Islamic veil practicing (IVP), non-complete IVP and Inconsiderate to IVP correlates of body mass index (BMI) status in a women population. It is hypothesized that women who are IVP would differ on depression, and social variables compared with their non-practicing peers.

This is the second-year part of a two-phase prospective epidemiological study as well as a community case-controled study. The aims of the second year study are firstly, to investigate the clinical course and 1-year outcome of eating disorders in the community, as well as the prospective risk factors of eating disorders; secondly, a case-control design involving with other psychiatric disorders from the same study population is used for risk factors study. The study subjects are gifted dance high school students who participated the first-year study and are willing to participate the 2nd-year study (N=675). Screening questionnaires for eating disorders and general psychiatric disorders are EAT, BITE and CHQ-12. Other self-report questionnaires include perfectionism subscale of Eating Disorder Inventor-I (EDI), Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (RSE), Eyseck Personality Scale, Pubertal Develoment Scale, and body figure test. Subjects who received interviews at the first-year study and those whose scores are above the threshold of the screening questionnaires need to receive interviews at 2nd phase. The criteria of interview threshold included EAT≧20+ BMI<18.5Kg/m2, symptom scale of BITE ≧15 and/or severity scale of BITE≧5, and CHQ ≧4. The content of interview included structured diagnostic interview (SCID-IP 1995) as well as risk factors assessment. Each time a subject with bulimia nervosa was recruited, one matched control subject with no mental illness general psychiatric diagnosis was sought from the same class or school. Potential psychiatric control subjects were identified from their scores on the CHQ. The psychiatric control subjects were required to have no current or past eating disorders. The contents of risk factor assessments include personal vulnerability and family problems. The relationships between individual risk factors and case status were assessed by univariate analysis. Conditional logistic analysis was used for multivariate analysis of risk factors prediction for eating disorders. To assess the relative importance of different types of exposure, the relationship between case status and exposure in each domain were first assessed by univariate analysis and then in multivariate stepwise regression analyses.

The objective of the study was to determine how patients with eating disorders perceive time, and in particular whether their experience of time differs from that of healthy individuals. Another goal was to examine the relationship between the mood of the subjects and their time perspective. The subjects were 30 women with eating disorders and 30 age-matched healthy female controls. The three measures applied were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska, the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo, and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al.

People who suffer from binge eating disorder experience recurrent episodes of binge eating.During these episodes, they consume an unusually large amount of food in a short amount of time and experience loss of control over eating. However, why such binge eating episodes occur is still largely unknown. This makes it difficult to develop targeted treatments. In this project, the experimenters are investigating the brain mechanisms that give rise to the disorder. They hypothesize that the binge eating episodes are due to an increased variability in reward processing, which they will assess repeatedly over days. They will test this hypothesis using mathematical models based on behavioural and MRI measurements that are related to the processing of rewards.

The aim of this project is to improve the evidence-base regarding lifestyle and mental health symptoms among fitness instructors. A national cohort of fitness instructors will be invited to participate in this study by responding to an online questionnaire. The questionnaire will consist of items regarding exercise, nutrition, eating disorders, the menstrual cycle, depression, anxiety, body dissatisfaction and satisfaction, drive for muscularity and leanness, and experiences of sexual harassment. Findings from this study will provide an evidence-base for initiatives to improve/optimize mental health among fitness instructors, and also in the process of developing fitness centres to a core partner in public health and health promotion work.

Obesity is a chronic disease. Its prevalence, which is constantly increasing, as well as the morbidity and mortality caused, require the development of new treatments, particularly for associated eating disorders. Indeed, it has been shown that a participation of abnormalities of food addiction type behaviour was frequently found in patients hospitalized for obesity (25% of patients). These disorders require specific management if you want to achieve a good weight result. The aim of the study is to compare the weight evolution of patients with addiction-type disorder (addict) versus those without addiction (non-addict) as well as the management modalities.

This study offers to determine whether adolescent patients with a restrictive eating disorder have variations in their sensoriality compared to a control group.

The overarching intention of the Eating Disorder Genetics Initiative (EDGI) is to lay the foundation for all future genomic discovery in eating disorders--anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED)--by exploring both genetic and behavioral factors. To do this, information will be collected from 4000 people who have provided DNA samples for the Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative (ANGI) and the same information and DNA will be collected from an additional 16,000 people. The goal is to better understand eating disorders and how they relate to each other so that better treatments can be developed.

Retrospective follow-up study of former eating disorder patients in child- and adolescent psychiatry on psychiatric symptoms and social intelligence.

The aim of the study is to understand the clinical characteristics of Taiwanese eating disorders as well as establishment of the psychometric properties of eating disorder-related questionnaires (EDI and BITE).