FReedom From Emotional Eating

NCT04185506 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: 879234-12
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 52
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The current study was a pilot study examining a novel treatment for weight loss and emotional eating. The intervention is a group-based approach, and it includes a focus on teaching emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and traditional behavioral weight loss techniques. The goal of the study was to develop and refine the treatment protocol. Additional goals of the study were to evaluate feasibility and acceptability, to see whether the intervention could be administered and whether participants like the treatment and believe it helps them. Changes in weight and emotional eating from baseline to post-treatment will also be measured.

Conditions

Overweight and Obesity; Emotional Eating

Keywords

emotional eating; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• change in body weight

  body weight measured in kilograms

  10 months

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• change in body mass index (BMI)

  10 months

• change in emotional eating

  10 months

• change in emotion regulation

  10 months

• change in use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills

  10 months

Study Arms (1)

DBT and behavioral weight loss

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention is a 16-week group-based behavioral program consisting of a combination of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills and behavioral weight loss techniques.

Behavioral: DBT+BWL

Interventions

DBT+BWL BEHAVIORAL

DBT skills include a focus on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness techniques. BWL includes a focus on monitoring of food intake, calorie reduction, and dietary and physical activity education.

DBT and behavioral weight loss

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 22 Years - 64 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• ability to read English at a 6th grade level
• willingness and ability to participate in study-related assessments and treatment visits. - - Subjects also had to report elevated levels of emotional eating. Elevated self-reported emotional eating occurred when subjects' self-reported emotional eating score was above the mean at least one of the sub scales of the Emotional Eating Scale (depression ≥ 21; EES-anxiety/anger ≥ 17; EES-boredom ≥ 21).

You may not qualify if:

• past or present medical condition that required physician monitoring to participate (i.e., history of coronary heart disease, hepatic disease, renal disease, stroke, seizures, or myocardial infarction; symptoms of angina; uncontrolled hypertension; diabetes; protein wasting disease/Cushing's syndrome; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; orthopedic problems that would limit activity; or any other serious medical condition that would make physical activity unsafe)
• concurrent psychotherapy treatment
• concurrent enrollment in a weight loss program
• unstable dosage of psychotropic medication in the previous 3 months
• regular use of purging or other compensatory behaviors in the previous 3 months
• psychiatric conditions that would interfere with study participation (e.g., psychosis, current alcohol or drug use disorder, severe depression or suicidal behaviors within the past month)
• current use of weight altering medications (e.g., phentermine)
• immediate plans for weight loss surgery
• current pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bowling Green State University: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Overweight; Obesity; Emotional Eating

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Overnutrition; Nutrition Disorders; Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases; Body Weight; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Feeding Behavior; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 27, 2019
• First Posted: December 4, 2019
• Study Start: April 16, 2016
• Primary Completion: November 17, 2019
• Study Completion: December 31, 2019
• Last Updated: December 4, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-12