Barlow's unIfied Protocol for emoTional Eating (BITE): a Pre-post Design

NCT05641350 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: IIBSP-BIT-2022-78
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 32
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention program, based on the Barlow's protocol, in patients with emotional eating with the aim of improving the emotional eating pattern. The design is quasi-experimental pre-post with a control group (waiting list) and evaluation of the maintenance of the response after 6 months of the end of the program. Includes outpatients from the Eating Disorders Unit and the Psychiatry Unit of a Hospital. A sample size of 26 participants is considered in the experimental group, and another 26 more in the control group.

Conditions

Emotional Eating

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Emotional eating score assessed by the Emotional eating sub-scale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ-EE)

  8 weeks

Study Arms (2)

Emotional eating intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Emotional eating intervention

Behavioral: Barlow's Unified Protocol

Waiting list

NO INTERVENTION

Waiting list

Interventions

Barlow's Unified Protocol BEHAVIORAL

Adaptation of the cognitive-behavioral Barlow's Unified Protocol for emotional eating pattern.

Emotional eating intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 65 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Outpatients from eating behavior disorder outpatient clinics and psychiatric outpatient clinics.
• Age between 18 and 65 years.
• Score of more than 2.46 on the "emotional eating" subscale of the DEBQ scale

You may not qualify if:

• Diagnosis of active Eating Disorder, that is, without at least 6 months of symptomatic remission or that exceed the cut-off point on the EAT-26 scale.
• Patients with severe mental disorder with or without psychotic symptoms (schizophreniform disorders, bipolar spectrum disorders, major depression)
• Patients with some other medical disorder that presents with impulse dysregulation, such as epilepsy, frontal-type dementia...
• Patients with an IQ \< 85
• Patients who do not give consent.
• Patients who do not understand or speak Spanish or Catalan.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau: lead

Study Sites (1)

Fundació de Gestió Sanitària de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Barcelona, Spain

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Emotional Eating

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Feeding Behavior; Behavior

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 16, 2022
• First Posted: December 7, 2022
• Study Start: December 1, 2022
• Primary Completion: November 1, 2023
• Study Completion: December 1, 2023
• Last Updated: December 5, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-03

Locations

ES (1)