Barlow's unIfied Protocol for emoTional Eating (BITE): a Pre-post Design

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau32 enrolled

Overview

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention program, based on the Barlow's protocol, in patients with emotional eating with the aim of improving the emotional eating pattern. The design is quasi-experimental pre-post with a control group (waiting list) and evaluation of the maintenance of the response after 6 months of the end of the program. Includes outpatients from the Eating Disorders Unit and the Psychiatry Unit of a Hospital. A sample size of 26 participants is considered in the experimental group, and another 26 more in the control group.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Emotional Eating

Interventions

Barlow's Unified Protocol

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 65 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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Inclusion Criteria: * Outpatients from eating behavior disorder outpatient clinics and psychiatric outpatient clinics. * Age between 18 and 65 years. * Score of more than 2.46 on the "emotional eating" subscale of the DEBQ scale Exclusion Criteria: * Diagnosis of active Eating Disorder, that is, without at least 6 months of symptomatic remission or that exceed the cut-off point on the EAT-26 scale. * Patients with severe mental disorder with or without psychotic symptoms (schizophreniform disorders, bipolar spectrum disorders, major depression) * Patients with some other medical disorder that presents with impulse dysregulation, such as epilepsy, frontal-type dementia... * Patients with an IQ \< 85 * Patients who do not give consent. * Patients who do not understand or speak Spanish or Catalan.

Barlow's unIfied Protocol for emoTional Eating (BITE): a Pre-post Design

Overview

Conditions

Interventions

Eligibility

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Outcomes

Primary Outcomes