Family connections in the treatment of relatives of people with eating disorders and personality disorders: study protocol of a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Eating disorders (EDs) are serious disorders that significantly affect not only the lives of patients, but also those of their family members who often experience high levels of burden, suffering and helplessness. If, in addition to ED, the patient has a personality disorder (PD), the psychological distress experienced by family members can be devastating. However, few treatments have been developed for family members of people with ED and PD. Family Connections (FC) is a programme that has been shown to be effective for family members of people with borderline personality disorder. The overall aims of this work are: (a) to adapt FC for application to family members of patients with BPD-PD (FC: ED-PD); (b) to analyse, in a randomised controlled clinical trial, the effica

SUBMITTER: Guillen V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10064734 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature