Conversations With Caregivers About Health and Appearance

NCT06843200 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: STUDY00001483
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 240
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This clinical trial is evaluating the effects of a 2-hour, small group discussion with parents and caregivers of adolescents in Oregon. We will evaluate whether parents'/caregivers' experience reductions in their disordered eating symptoms, mood symptoms, and parent-child relationship quality, relative to parent/caregiver participants in the wait list control. We will also evaluate whether the children of these parents/caregivers experience improvements in their disordered eating and mood symptoms.

Conditions

Disordered Eating Behaviors; Depression; Feeding Behaviors; Parent-Child Relations

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (9)

• Parent/caregiver disordered eating symptoms

  Disordered eating will be measured using the 36-item Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q)

  baseline to 1-month

• Parent-child feeding practices

  Child feeding practices will be assessed using the modified Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ). The monitoring, restriction for weight, restriction for health, environment, modeling, and teaching about nutrition subscales (27-items) will be used. 4 responses on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always), while the rest are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree).

  baseline to 1-month

• Parent/caregiver weight bias internalization

  Weight bias internalization will be measured using the modified 10-item Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-M). Responses on the measure are rated on a 7-point scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree).

  baseline to 1-month

• Exercise avoidance

  Exercise avoidance will be assessed using 2-items used in previous research (More et al., 2019). Responses on the measure are rated on a 7-point scale from 1 (not at all true) to 7 (completely true).

  baseline to 1-month

• Parent/caregiver self-compassion

  Self-compassion will be assessed using the 12-item Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF). Responses on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (almost never) to 5 (almost always). Higher summed scores indicate greater self-compassion. The SCS-SF has near perfect correlation with the original 26-item Self-Compassion Scale.

  baseline and 1-month

• Parent/child body ideal internalization

  Sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, including thin-ideal internalization, muscular-ideal internalization, and appearance-related pressures will be measured using three subscales from the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire Revised-3 (SATAQ-R). The Internalization-TV/Mag, Internalization-Athlete, and Internalization-Comparison subscales (13-items) subscales will be used. Responses on the measures are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (definitely disagree) to 5 (definitely agree).

  baseline and 1-month

• Parent/caregiver stress

  Parental stress will be measured using the 18-item Parental Stress Scale (PSS). Responses on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).

  baseline and 1-month

• Parent/caregiver fat talk

  Frequency of fat talk will be assessed using the 16-item Family Fat Talk Questionnaire. Responses on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always).

  baseline and 1-month

• Parent/caregiver anti-fat attitudes

  Anti-Fat attitude will be assessed using 3-items from the Willpower subscale of the Anti-Fat Attitudes Questionnaire (AFA). Responses on the measure are rated on a 9-point scale from 0 (very strongly disagree) to 9 (very strongly agree).

  baseline and 1-month

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• child disordered eating symptoms

  baseline to 1-month

• Parent-child relationship (child report)

  baseline to 1-month

• child anti-fat bias

  baseline to 1-month

• Child exercise avoidance

  baseline to 1-month

• fat talk (child report of parent/caregiver)

  baseline and 1-month

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

a single 2-hour, remote delivered interactive group parenting session

Behavioral: Parent Group Discussion

Wait-list control

NO INTERVENTION

wait-list control group will receive the same intervention after data collection ends

Interventions

Parent Group Discussion BEHAVIORAL

A 2-hour interactive parent group delivered to 5-10 parents via zoom; discuss weight bias and discrimination; brainstorm ways to respond in parent-child interactions involving health and appearance; and identify action steps.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• at least 18 years old
• the primary caregiver of at least one child 12-17 years old who lives with them at least 50% of the time
• living in the state of Oregon
• can read and understand English at the 6th grade level or higher
• access to internet and private space for zoom
• years of age
• can read and understand English at the 6th grade level or higher

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Oregon: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon, 97405, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Disordered Eating Behavior; Depression; Feeding Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Mental Disorders; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior, Animal

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: January 30, 2025
• First Posted: February 24, 2025
• Study Start: January 27, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 1, 2026
• Last Updated: February 24, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)