A Weight Loss Trial for Emotional Eating

Temple University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Loss; Behavioral: Enhanced Behavioral Weight Loss

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02055391

F32DK083910

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a new weight loss treatment which incorporates behavioral weight loss skills and skills for learning how to identify, manage, and cope with emotions helps with weight loss and emotional eating in people who are overweight and eat in response to emotions.

Enrollment: 79 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-smoker, free of diabetes, overweight and interested in losing weight, eat in response to emotions

Exclusion criteria

• Diabetes, any major medical or psychiatric condition that would compromise ability to participate, hypertension, current mental health treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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79 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral Weight Loss

Active Comparator group

Description:

State of the art behavioral weight loss treatment

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Weight Loss

Enhanced Behavioral Weight Loss

Experimental group

Description:

Combines behavioral weight loss skills with skills specifically targeting emotional eating.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Enhanced Behavioral Weight Loss