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The Experience of Affective Touch in Obesity (AffTouch_OB)

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Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Status

Enrolling

Conditions

Obesity

Treatments

Behavioral: Affective touch paradigm

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present research is to verify if the pleasantness of affective touch is comparable between women with obesity and healthy women, while measuring the level of social anhedonia and the lifespan experience of affective touch.

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 50 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • right-handed;
  • diagnosis of obesity (i.e., the level of body mass index (BMI( greater than or equal to 30).

Exclusion criteria

  • Concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders
  • Evidence of any skin-related condition possibly affecting sensitivity on the participants' forearm (e.g., eczema, scars).

Trial design

60 participants in 2 patient groups

Cases
Description:
Right-handed women diagnosed with obesity will be consecutively recruited during their rehabilitative treatment at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, San Giuseppe Hospital (Italy). Concurrent neurological, neurodevelopmental (e.g., autism), motor, somatosensory and/or psychiatric disorders will be exclusion criteria, as well as the evidence of any skin-related condition possibly affecting sensitivity on the participants' forearm (e.g., eczema, scars)
Treatment:
Behavioral: Affective touch paradigm
Controls
Description:
Age-matched, right-handed, healthy women (i.e., with no history of eating disorders) will be recruited outside the hospital through personal contacts of the researchers and word-of-mouth.
Treatment:
Behavioral: Affective touch paradigm

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Luca G Grappiolo; Federica Scarpina, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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