Treatment of Anxiety and Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Adolescents with anorexia nervosa frequently have associated anxiety, and standard medications used for anxiety are unhelpful when patients are malnourished. This is a 12 week trial examining the safety, tolerability, and effectiveness of fish oil nutritional supplements for anxiety in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Andrea Bonny; Nationwide Children's Hospital

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Females admitted to Nationwide Children's Hospital Eating Disorder Partial Hospitalization Program

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Inability to take pills

2. Co-morbid medical conditions affecting appetite and weight (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, cystic fibrosis)

3. Co-morbid psychiatric conditions affecting appetite and weight (e.g., bipolar disorder, substance abuse)

4. Currently taking fish oil supplements

5. Inability to participate in study for 12 consecutive weeks.