Intensive Community Care for Anorexia Nervosa (ICCAN study)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A pilot open study of intensive community care for patients with severe anorexia nervosa
IRAS ID
170218
Contact name
Paul Robinson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 6 months, 23 days
Research summary
Anorexia nervosa is difficult and costly to treat. Inpatient care costs between £400 and £1000 per day. In this project the ultimate aim is to establish whether intensive community care reduces the need for inpatient care. In this stage of the project, A newly designed day programme and outpatient follow up (not part of the research project) will be studied. Participants will be interviewed and will fill in questionnaires at 3-6 month intervals during the study in order to evaluate compliance with assessment and treatment, participant and carer health and costs of care. This is an uncontrolled, feasibility study to provide information for a later randomised trial.
There will be no randomisation. Day care will be for 6 months and outpatient therapy will go on for 18 months, providing a total of 2 years treatment. The clinical service has been developed by the St Ann's Eating Disorders Service and is not a research exercise. The research element is that participants and carers will complete questionnaires and interviews and compliance with the therapeutic programme will be monitored.REC name
London - Bromley Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/LO/0260
Date of REC Opinion
2 Feb 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion