Binge Focused Therapy: A Guided, Self-help, Group-based Approach for Binge Eating Disorder

Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Binge-Eating Disorder

Eating Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: Binge Focused Therapy (BFT) Intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03348475

BFT

Details and patient eligibility

About

The "Brain Over Binge Recovery Guide" (Hansen, 2016), is a self-help approach that incorporates fundamental aspects of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy and addictions treatment. This approach has been streamlined into a guided self-help protocol (Binge Focused Therapy, or BFT) that can be delivered by undergraduate students with minimal mental health experience in 3 group sessions spread over 8 weeks (i.e., Week 1, Week 2, Week 8). The aim of this proof-of-concept study is to provide preliminary data to examine whether this approach is feasible and has clinical potential for patients with binge eating disorder.

Enrollment

38 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age 18 years or older;
Meets DSM-5 criteria for moderate to severe Binge Eating Disorder (BED) as determined through screening interview by an eating disorder psychiatrist and validated with the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (a self-report screening tool);
Provides written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Currently receiving treatment for BED;
Is taking a psychotropic medication (e.g., antidepressant, stimulant, etc.) AND the dose has been changed 2 weeks prior to baseline;
Insufficient knowledge of English.