CompletedNot Applicable

Food Addiction Clinical Treatment Program

United States2 participantsStarted 2023-03-21

Plain-language summary

The purpose of this current study is to establish the feasibility of, and preliminary support for, a clinical treatment program utilizing interventions from various empirically supported treatments for obesity-related eating disorders and substance use disorders

Who can participate

Age range25 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 25 * BMI \>25 * YFAS \> 6/11 (severe range) * willing to commit to a 16 week group therapy program from 4 - 5:30 pm on Thursdays in Winston-Salem, NC * English speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Current participation in professional weight loss program and unwillingness to suspend it for 16 weeks during treatment * obesity medications with exception of diabetes medication with weight loss benefit (ie metformin), * current nicotine use or substance use disorder (based on meeting the clinical cutoff for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and/or Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test * history of weight loss surgery, * current/history of severe mental illness (\> 3 psychiatric hospitalizations since age 18, * schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or personality disorder), * current/history of lithium, abilify, saphris, vraylor, clozaril, latuda, zyprexa, seroquel, risperdal, or Geodon, * current pregnancy or breastfeeding, * prior diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, diagnosis of bulimia nervosa in the last 5 years, * high currents rates of restrictive eating disorder symptoms based on the Eating Disorder Diagnosis Scale (EDDS; (i.e., any endorsement of vomiting or laxative/diuretic use to manage weight and endorsement of fasting or excessive exercise more than 2 or 3 times a week)

What they're measuring

Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS)

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ)

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with suicide question removed

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with suicide question removed

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

Timeframe: post16-week intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04373343

SponsorWake Forest University Health Sciences

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2023-09-07

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Who can participate

Age range25 Years

SexALL

See this in plain English?

AI-rewrites the medical criteria so a patient or caregiver can understand them. Always confirm with the trial site.

What they're measuring

Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS)

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire (WSSQ)

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with suicide question removed

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) with suicide question removed

Timeframe: post 16-week intervention

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

Timeframe: pre 16-week intervention

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7)

Timeframe: post16-week intervention