Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: Parents perspectives of recovery

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa: An exploration of recovery from the perspective of parents.

• IRAS ID

  171724

• Contact name

  Rachel Denton

• Sponsor organisation

  Research and development team, TEWV

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 3 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  Eating disorders are a class of severe mental disorders with development typically occurring during adolescence. Previous qualitative studies have investigated adult’s perspectives of recovery from an eating disorder and one known qualitative study in the process of publication has investigated adolescent’s perspectives of recovery from anorexia nervosa. When daughters are living at home, parents are heavily involved in the recovery process and can experience high levels of distress, anxiety and conflict. This study therefore aims to gather parents’ perspectives on the recovery process and the factors parents feel have helped to facilitate recovery. As in most eating disorders research, this study will focus only on daughters with an eating disorder due to the higher prevalence of eating disorders in females and the potential differences involved in recovery.
  The mental health clinician working with the adolescent will identify whether the adolescent is in recovery according to set criteria. If the adolescent is happy for their parent to be included in the study they will be directed to pass on an information pack including a participant information sheet, cover letter and consent form to their parent(s). Participants who consent to the study will be directed to return a reply slip to indicate their interest and will then be contacted by the research lead to arrange a meeting at their local CAMHS team. Participants will be interviewed by the research lead using a semi structured interview technique. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) will be used to analyse the interviews.
  Previous studies focusing on parents perspectives have either been focused specifically on the treatment received or have been carried out once daughters have reached adulthood and are no longer living at home; therefore reducing parents involvement in the overall management of the illness.

• REC name

  North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/NE/0179

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 Jun 2015

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion