Eating Disorders Clinical Trials

19 studies are recruiting for eating disorders in the United States right now. Each one is listed on ClinicalTrials.gov, the public registry the research teams themselves file with. TrialBoost is not a doctor, a research site, or a study sponsor: the research team decides who takes part.

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1. Study Comparing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Supportive Diabetes Counseling and a Waitlist Control for Eating Disorders in Type 1 Diabetes

   The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether a new intervention works to treat eating disorders in type 1 diabetes. Participants are assigned to one of the following: (1) Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), (2) Supportive Diabetes Counseling, or (3) a 6-month Waitlist Control. Participan…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   16 to 50

   Site

   Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

   Locations

   2 in total

   Run by

   Duke University

   See if you can join NCT05540704 on ClinicalTrials.gov

2. FlexED: National Substudy

   The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of disseminating an intervention broadly. "FlexED" is a digital gamified intervention targeting eating disorder symptoms in young women and girls at risk by changing how they experience thoughts and feelings about their body. The digital interven…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   18 to 25

   Site

   Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

   Run by

   Duke University

   See if you can join NCT07807774 on ClinicalTrials.gov

3. FlexED: Full Threshold ED Substudy

   The purpose of this study is to test whether a new digital intervention decreases eating disorder symptoms in young women with eating disorders by changing how they experience thoughts and feelings about their body. The digital intervention is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Parti…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   15 to 25

   Site

   Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

   Run by

   Duke University

   See if you can join NCT07732829 on ClinicalTrials.gov

4. A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Digital, Gamified Early Intervention for Eating Disorders ("FlexED")

   The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether a new digital intervention decreases eating disorder symptoms in young women and girls at risk by changing how they experience thoughts and feelings about their body. The digital intervention is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Par…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   15 to 25

   Site

   Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

   Run by

   Duke University

   See if you can join NCT07632248 on ClinicalTrials.gov

5. Non-invasive Cranial Electrical Stimulation for Mealtime Anxiety in Adults With Eating Disorders

   The study is to evaluate the feasibility of using a non-invasive brain stimulation device in a sample of inpatients with eating disorders (ED). The study will help researchers evaluate whether their device protocol is practical for eating disorder inpatients as a way to manage eating disorder and a…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   18 to 30

   Site

   Rogers Behavioral Health, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin

   Run by

   Rogers Behavioral Health

   See if you can join NCT07017322 on ClinicalTrials.gov

6. Tirzepatide Impact Assessment Study

   This study examines how two different weight-loss strategies affect heart and metabolic health, as well as changes at the molecular level in the body. One group includes adults who are starting a GLP-1 receptor agonist medication (i.e., semaglutide or tirzepatide) prescribed by their own doctor for…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   18 and older

   Site

   Nutrition Metabolic Health Initiative (NMHI), Lubbock, Texas

   Run by

   Texas Tech University

   See if you can join NCT07740291 on ClinicalTrials.gov

7. Eating Disorder Chatbot Optimization

   The purpose of this study is to optimize an automated digital chatbot intervention for adults with clinical or subclinical eating disorders.

   Stage

   Phase 2

   Ages

   18 and older

   Site

   Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri

   Run by

   Washington University School of Medicine

   See if you can join NCT07218302 on ClinicalTrials.gov

8. Targeting Transdiagnostic Self-regulatory Factors and Eating Disorder Pathology Among Adults With BInge-spectrum Eating disOrders: A mHEALTH Interoceptive Exposure Intervention (the Bio-HEALTH Study)

   The present study will be fully remote (virtual) and include observational design features (assessments) plus a clinical trial. All assessments will be completed using HIPAA-approved platforms (e.g., Qualtrics, MindLogger EMA platform). After screening via Qualtrics to determine eligibility (descri…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   18 to 64

   Site

   University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

   Run by

   University of Minnesota

   See if you can join NCT06631729 on ClinicalTrials.gov

9. Eating Disorder Dynamic Intervention

   The goal of this study is to develop and test a digital program to help people with eating disorders in their everyday lives. The program uses brief surveys and sensor data collected by smartphones to understand when someone may be at higher risk for behaviors like restricting food, binge eating, o…

   Stage

   Not phased

   Ages

   18 to 70

   Site

   Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire

   Run by

   Trustees of Dartmouth College

   See if you can join NCT07600671 on ClinicalTrials.gov

10. Safety Behavior Fading Versus Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Appearance Concerns

    The current study aims to explore the efficacy of a text message based safety behavior fading intervention compared to a progressive muscle relaxation intervention for appearance concerns.

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 65

    Site

    Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

    Run by

    Florida State University

    See if you can join NCT07589621 on ClinicalTrials.gov

11. A Precision Medicine Approach to Target Engagement for Emotion Regulation

    The proposed study is designed to first test whether teaching people personalized or standardized emotion regulation skills leads to greater decreases in daily negative emotion intensity. Second, using data from an initial sample, the investigators will prospectively assign an independent sample of…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 and older

    Site

    Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

    Run by

    Matthew Southward, PhD

    See if you can join NCT05651295 on ClinicalTrials.gov

12. Targeting Social Function in Anxiety and Eating Disorders

    Social processing and cognition are often altered in patients with eating disorders. The goal of this clinical trial is to assess two different social therapeutic interventions -- one educational, one interactive -- for their effectiveness in improving clinical outcomes in patients with eating diso…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 30

    Site

    UT Southwestern Multispecialty Psychiatry Clinic, Dallas, Texas

    Run by

    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    See if you can join NCT06198023 on ClinicalTrials.gov

13. Developing an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot for Adolescents and Young Adults With Eating Disorders

    The goal of this study is to develop and refine an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Exposure Therapy for Eating Disorders chatbot web-app that effectively engages adolescents and young adults and decreases anxiety about weight gain. Participants will use the web-app as a supplemental therapeuti…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    12 to 26

    Site

    Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania

    Run by

    Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    See if you can join NCT07237607 on ClinicalTrials.gov

14. Diabetes Body Project 2

    The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility and effectiveness of an eating disorder prevention program specifically targeted for women with type 2 diabetes (T2D) called the Diabetes Body Project 2 (DBP2). The Diabetes Body Project 2 (DBP2) will be adapted from the Diabetes Body Project, wh…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 40

    Site

    Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts

    Run by

    Joslin Diabetes Center

    See if you can join NCT07468188 on ClinicalTrials.gov

15. Neurostimulation Versus Therapy for Problems With Emotions

    The primary goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the unique neural and behavioral effects of a one-session training combining emotion regulation skills training, with excitatory repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC). The secondary …

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 55

    Site

    Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

    Run by

    Duke University

    See if you can join NCT05712057 on ClinicalTrials.gov

16. Barrett's Esophagitis in Anorexia Nervosa Binge/Purge Subtype

    To better define the presence of Barrett's esophagus (BE) via non-endoscopic testing in an eating disorder cohort with purging (vomiting/rumination) behaviors

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 65

    Site

    ACUTE Center for Eating Disorders and Severe Malnutrition, Denver, Colorado

    Locations

    3 in total

    Run by

    Denver Health and Hospital Authority

    See if you can join NCT06532734 on ClinicalTrials.gov

17. Naltrexone Neuroimaging in Teens With Eating Disorders

    Using a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover study, this study will evaluate functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) as a pharmacodynamic biomarker of opioid antagonism in adolescents with eating disorders. The hypothesis is that fMRI will be able to detect acute reward pathway modulation…

    Stage

    EARLY_Phase 1

    Ages

    13 to 21

    Site

    Children's Mercy Research Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

    Run by

    Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

    See if you can join NCT05509257 on ClinicalTrials.gov

18. Innovations in Personalizing Treatment Study

    Eating disorders (EDs) are serious mental illness: someone dies of an ED every 52 minutes. EDs are highly related to a host of negative outcomes, including public health and individual disease burden, medical and psychological comorbidities, and social determinants of health (SDOH). Treatment respo…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    18 to 65

    Site

    Eating Anxiety Laboratory and Clinic, Louisville, Kentucky

    Run by

    University of Louisville

    See if you can join NCT06208605 on ClinicalTrials.gov

19. Open vs. Blind Weighing Study In Adolescents and Young Adult With Eating Disorders

    Current treatments for adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with eating disorders (EDs) do not effectively address a central ED symptom - anxiety about weight gain - which contributes to poor outcomes. The proposed study evaluates the feasibility, acceptability, efficacy, and underlying mechanisms o…

    Stage

    Not phased

    Ages

    12 to 24

    Site

    905 W Govener Rd, Hershey, Pennsylvania

    Run by

    Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

    See if you can join NCT06085092 on ClinicalTrials.gov