Plain-English translation of NCT06085092 on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗ · Source last updated · Translation generated · How we translate trials
This study doesn't follow the usual testing phases — it may be an observational study or a different type of research.
This trial is testing two different ways to help teenagers and young adults (ages 12–24) who have eating disorders, particularly anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. One approach, called "open weighing," teaches you to directly face and challenge your fears about weight gain by regularly predicting your weight, seeing your actual weight, and talking through your thoughts about it. The other approach, called "blind weighing," asks you to avoid focusing on weight altogether.
Many young people with eating disorders feel intense anxiety when they gain weight, and this fear can actually make their eating disorder worse and harder to treat. The researchers want to understand which approach—facing the fear head-on or avoiding it—helps people recover better and what's actually happening in their mind when they improve.
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You would attend sessions with a study coordinator at the hospital's program. If you're in the open-weighing group, you'll work together to understand your fears about weight gain by writing them down, predicting your weight each week, stepping on a scale, and discussing what you learn from comparing your predictions to your actual weight. If you're in the blind-weighing group, you'll work on managing your eating disorder without focusing on weight numbers at all. Both approaches are integrated into your regular eating disorder treatment.
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