Internet Weight Control for Bingeing Adolescents

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Eating Disorders; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: Internet-based intervention designed to reduce binge eating and improve healthy weight regulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00125112

DK65757 (completed)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if an internet-based intervention designed to reduce binge eating and improve healthy weight regulation skills will result in reductions in binge eating and weight loss, or weight maintenance, in overweight adolescents who binge eat.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine if an internet-based intervention designed to reduce binge eating and improve healthy weight regulation skills will result in reductions in binge eating and weight loss, or weight maintenance, in overweight adolescents who binge eat.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female and male high school students in Hayward Unified School District or Meridian School District
• 85th or greater percentile for age-adjusted weight
• Objective binge eating one or more times weekly for a duration of ≥ 3 months
• Access to a computer with internet access
• English literacy at a sixth grade reading level

Exclusion criteria

• Current (or history of) diagnosis of anorexia or bulimia nervosa
• Active suicidal ideation
• Current enrollment in a formal weight loss or binge eating program (e.g., Weight Watchers)
• Any medical condition in which the actual condition or treatment affects weight and/or appetite (i.e., cancer, diabetes)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)