Interoceptive Exposure for Adolescents With Low Weight Eating Disorders
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Where
- New York, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 120 people, planned
- Started
- 14 Mar 2023
- Expected to end
- Jan 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Interoceptive Exposure Treatment (IE)
- Family-Based Treatment (FBT)
- Record updated
- 22 June 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 12 years to 18 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Aged 12-18
- Speak English
- Permission from pediatrician or equivalent to receive outpatient care
- Clinically significant restriction of food intake by EDA-5 or evidence of persistent food avoidance from patient or guardians
- Evidence of the inability to maintain greater than minimally low body weight based on BMI for age percentiles and growth trajectories
Who cannot take part
- Comorbid psychotic or bipolar disorder
- Psychiatric medication initiated or dosage changes <2 weeks from baseline
- Major medical illness (e.g., diabetes mellitus, Crohn's disease, etc.)
- Active suicidal ideation
- Current substance dependence
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 12 and 18 years old?
Where in United States
- Department of Psychiatry, Eating and Weight Disorders ProgramNew York, United StatesContact: Jessica Bibeau, MATaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
This project includes a parallel group randomized controlled trial comparing two psychological treatments: 1) Exposure-based Family Therapy (IE) vs. 2) Family Based Therapy (FBT) for low weight eating disorders with 12 month follow-up. Primary outcomes are expected body weight and clinical impairment. Three mechanisms of change (Autonomous Eating, Non-Judgmental Body Awareness, and Extinction Learning) will be examined in a process mediation models of change.
The 2 groups in the trial
- Interoceptive Exposure Treatment (IE)Treatment being tested
Interoceptive Exposure Therapy (IE) targets food avoidance, food exposure, and body image exposure.
- Family-Based Treatment (FBT)Existing treatment, for comparison
Family-Based Therapy (FBT) focuses on parent-enforced contingencies, increasing value of eating, and decreasing the value of food avoidance.
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- A Confirmatory Efficacy Study of Interoceptive Exposure for Adolescents With Low Weight Eating Disorders
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT05763849, who can take part
- Record updated
- 22 June 2026