Adapted physical activity program for people with anorexia nervosa

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

The trial adds a standardized 8-week Adapted Physical Activity (APA) program—eight 90-minute sessions combining supervised activity and psychoeducation about problematic exercise and healthy practice—to usual care for people with anorexia nervosa. Eligible participants are aged 12 or older, meet DSM-5 criteria for anorexia nervosa, and are treated in participating specialized eating-disorder centers in France. The primary outcome is change in body mass index at the end of the program, with secondary outcomes assessed at program end and six months later to measure symptoms and treatment adherence. Sessions are delivered in person and the intensity is adapted to each patient, with those medically unstable or with contraindications to exercise excluded.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

Inclusion Criteria:

* Anorexia nervosa patients (DSM 5 criteria),
* over or equal to 12 years old,
* Treated in the specialised eating disorder centres involved in the study either in the day hospital program or in the inpatient program,
* Understanding, reading and writing French,
* Benefiting from social cover
* Have read the information notice and have consented to participate in the study by signing a written consent

Exclusion Criteria:

* Somatic instability needing intensive medical care or monitoring (intensity is adapted in each session to each patient) or psychiatric emergency (suicidal risk and/or acute psychiatric symptomatology),
* Somatic complication forbidding any physical activity,
* Absence social cover,
* Patients in an emergency situation, incapable of giving their consent or adults under guardianship or curatorship,
* Pregnant or breastfeeding women (declarative: question asked to the patient during inclusion),
* Refusal to participate.

Where it's running

• Clinique Saint Vincent de Paul
  Lyon, France Recruiting
• CHU Montpellier
  Montpellier, France Recruiting
• CHU Nantes - service d'addictologie et Psychiatrie de Liaison
  Nantes, France Recruiting
• GHU Saine Anne
  Paris, France Recruiting
• UDJ Michel Ange
  Paris, France Recruiting
• CHU St Etienne
  Saint-Etienne, France Recruiting

Study contacts

• Study coordinator: Nathalie Godart, PU-PH
• Email: nathalie.godart@fsef.net
• Phone: 01.45.89.43.39

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.