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NCT Number: NCT06843200

Conversations With Caregivers About Health and Appearance

This clinical trial is evaluating the effects of a 2-hour, small group discussion with parents and caregivers of adolescents in Oregon. The investigators 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. The investigators will also evaluate whether the children of these parents/caregivers experience improvements in their disordered eating and mood symptoms.

Active, Not Recruiting

This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

Conditions

Disordered Eating Behaviors Behavior Behavior, Animal Behavioral Symptoms Depression Disordered Eating Behavior Feeding Behavior Feeding Behaviors Feeding and Eating Disorders Mental Disorders Parent-Child Relations

Age range

12 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon, 97405, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

for parent/caregiver:

  • 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

Inclusion criteria

for the child:

  • 12-17 years of age
  • can read and understand English at the 6th grade level or higher

Treatment and study plan

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Parent/caregiver disordered eating symptoms

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

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

  2. Parent-child feeding practices

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    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).

  3. Parent/caregiver weight bias internalization

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    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).

  4. Exercise avoidance

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    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).

  5. Parent/caregiver self-compassion

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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.

  6. Parent/child body ideal internalization

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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).

  7. Parent/caregiver stress

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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).

  8. Parent/caregiver fat talk

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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).

  9. Parent/caregiver anti-fat attitudes

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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).

Secondary outcomes

  1. child disordered eating symptoms

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

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

  2. Parent-child relationship (child report)

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    Child perceived quality of relationship with parent will be measured using the 8-item Parent-Adolescent Relationship Scale. Three items on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 0 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree) while the other 5 items on the measure are rated on a 5-pooint scale from 0 (never) to 4 (always). This measure has been validated in an adolescent sample.

  3. child anti-fat bias

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    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). This measure has been validated in an adolescent sample.

  4. Child exercise avoidance

    Time frame: baseline to 1-month

    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).

  5. fat talk (child report of parent/caregiver)

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    Frequency of fat talk will be measured using the 14-item Fat Talk Questionnaire. Responses on the measure are rated on a 5-point scale from 1 (never) to 5 (always). Our team will make revisions to the language in the scale to replace gendered language with gender neutral language. This measure has been validated in adolescents 12 and up.

  6. child weight bias internalization

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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). The measure has been validated in an adolescent sample.

  7. child body ideals internalizations

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    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). This measure has been validated in an adolescent sample.

  8. child self-compassion

    Time frame: baseline and 1-month

    Self-compassion will be assessed using the 17-item Self-Compassion Scale Youth Version (SCS-Youth). 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-Youth has been validated in an adolescent sample.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Oregon

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2025
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Feb 24, 2025
Registry last updated
May 22, 2026

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