The Role of a Brief Educational Video Series for Parent of Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa

Enrolling by invitation · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Atypical Anorexia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa

In brief

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a brief parent educational video series is feasible, acceptable, and effective for improving parent and patient outcomes for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa. The main questions it aims to answer are: Do parents want to watch these educational videos and find them helpful/useful ? Do parents who watch the videos report improvement in their knowledge about restrictive eating disorders and self-efficacy in helping their child recover, as well as reductions in stress and burden associated with parenting a child with anorexia? Do adolescents (ages 10-16) report improvements in their eating disorder symptoms when their parents watch these videos? Investigators will compare treatment as usual (traditional family and individual therapy with regular medical and nutrition visits) to treatment as usual plus the parent educational videos to see if the videos improve parental and patient outcomes beyond treatment as usual. Parent and adolescent participants will complete baseline measures including: Parent measures: eating disorder knowledge, self-efficacy, stress and burnout Patient (adolescent) measures: eating disorder symptoms, depression symptoms, anxiety symptoms Parents will complete these measures immediately after first meeting with their child's medical doctor to confirm a diagnosis of a restrictive eating disorder and then again 3 months later. The investigators will also assess the video feasibility and acceptability by asking parents to report their satisfaction with the videos and to assess how many approached families enroll in the study.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07566546

Run by

Baylor College of Medicine

People needed

50

Starts

2026-04-14

Expected to finish

2027-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-05-05

Who can join

Age: 10 and older, up to 16. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The adolescent must: • have had an initial medical evaluation by one of the Adolescent Medicine physicians at Texas Children's Hospital and be determined at that visit to have a restrictive eating disorder such as Anorexia Nervosa, Atypical Anorexia Nervosa, or Eating Disorder unspecified type.
• The adolescent must between the ages of 10-16
• The adolescent and their parent/guardian must be able to read and write English fluently

You may not qualify if…

• Adolescent cannot have a comorbid diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disability

Where it is running

• Texas Children's Hospital — Houston, Texas, United States

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