Family connections in the treatment of relatives of people with eating disorders and personality disorders: study protocol of a randomized control trial
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Other documents of the author: Guillen, Veronica; Arnal, Antonio; Pérez, Sandra; García-Alandete, Joaquín; Fernandez-Felipe, Isabel; Grau, Antoni; Botella, Cristina; Marco, José Heliodoro
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Family connections in the treatment of relatives of people with eating disorders and personality disorders: study protocol of a randomized control trialAuthor (s)
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2023Publisher
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2050-7283Bibliographic citation
Guillén, V., Arnal, A., Pérez, S., Garcia-Alandete, J., Fernandez-Felipe, I., Grau, A., Botella, C., Marco, J. H. Family connections in the treatment of relatives of people with eating disorders and personality disorders: study protocol of a randomized control trial. BMC Psychol 11, 88 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01138-xType
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Background: Eating disorders (EDs) are serious disorders that significantly affect not only the lives of patients, but also those of their family members who often experience high levels of burden, suffering and ... [+]
Background: Eating disorders (EDs) are serious disorders that significantly affect not only the lives of patients, but also those of their family members who often experience high levels of burden, suffering and helplessness. If, in addition to ED, the patient has a personality disorder (PD), the psychological distress experienced by family members can be devastating. However, few treatments have been developed for family members of people with ED and PD. Family Connections (FC) is a programme that has been shown to be effective for family members of people with borderline personality disorder. The overall aims of this work are: (a) to adapt FC for application to family members of patients with BPD-PD (FC: ED-PD); (b) to analyse, in a randomised controlled clinical trial, the efficacy of this programme in a Spanish population, compared to a control condition consisting of treatment as usual optimised treatment (TAU-O); (c) to analyse the feasibility of the intervention protocol; (d) to analyse whether the changes that may occur in relatives are related to improvements in the family climate and/or improvements observed in patients; and (e) to analyse the perceptions and opinions of relatives and patients about the two intervention protocols.
Methods: The study uses a two-arm randomised controlled clinical trial with two experimental conditions: adaptation of FC programme (FC: ED-PD) or Treatment as usual optimised (TAU-O). Participants will be family members of patients who meet DSM-5 criteria for ED and PD or dysfunctional personality traits. Participants will be assessed before and after treatment and at one-year follow-up. The intention-to-treat principle will be used when analysing the data.
Discussion: The results obtained are expected to confirm the effectiveness of the programme and its good acceptance by family members. [-]
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BMC psychology, 2023, vol. 11Funder Name
Generalitat Valenciana
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