A Multimodal Outcome Study of Eating Disorders

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-11-26

Study Completion Date

2019-06-01

Brief Summary

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This research project aims to explore the effectiveness of combined go/no-go training and implementation intentions in targeting binge eating frequency among people with binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa.

The full intervention is 4 weeks long and consists of completing the training and food diaries every day and meeting with the researcher twice for EEG recording. Moreover, it involves completing questionnaires at baseline, at intervention completion, and one month after the intervention.

Moreover, healthy control participants will be recruitment to complete baseline questionnaires and take part in one EEG recording session in order to assess baseline differences in brain activation in response to computer tasks.

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Detailed Description

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Participants will learn about the study through flyers, e-mail, and social media (i.e. twitter and Facebook) which will describe the interventional nature of the study, the main eligibility criteria, and the researcher's contact information. Interested individuals will be asked to contact the researchers, who will then send an information sheet detailing the study procedure and what participation would involve. After reading the information sheet, interested individuals will be contacted by the researchers in order to confirm all eligibility criteria including diagnostic assessment. If these are met a PDF of the consent form will be sent to the participants, including information about their rights as participants and their ability to withdraw at any time without having to give a reason. Participants who sign the consent form will respond to the email with the attached document. Next, researchers will contact the participant to set an appointment to enter the lab for the first EEG recording. Before entering the lab, participants will be asked to complete a food diary and complete the complete a battery of questionnaires. The questionnaires include: 1) a demographic questionnaire, 2) eating disorders examination questionnaire, 3) food ratings test, 4) self-regulation of eating behaviour questionnaire for adults, 5) The negative urgency scale, 6) the adults eating behaviour questionnaire, 7) GAD-7, and 8) PHQ-9.

Upon participants' arrival to the lab, participants will be asked to complete the food rating task. Next, they will learn to complete the training tasks (i.e. food specific go/no-go and general go/no-go) and perform them during EEG recording. They will be offered the opportunity to ask questions relating to the task or the EEG at any time. Their weight will also be measured.

Participants will be asked to complete the training and complete food diaries every day for four weeks. The successful/ unsuccessful attempts at implementation intentions will be assessed weekly by a mentor. A researcher/clinician will discuss setting the implementation intention goals with the participant over email. At the end of the training, participants will enter the lab to re-complete the four tasks while researchers record brain activation using the EEG. They will also be asked to complete the food rating task again and their weight will be re-assessed. Before leaving, they will be asked to complete a feedback sheet in which they can express their experience with the training, in terms of facilitators and barriers and visual analogue scales that will ask participants to rate the acceptability, usefulness and level of burden experienced with training.

Participants will then be followed up at 1 month post-intervention; they will be asked to complete the battery of questionnaires used at baseline and post-intervention.

Conditions

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Eating Disorder Healthy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

The model includes two interventions (i.e. inhibitory control training and implementation intentions) that aim to target cognitive processes that have been reported to play a role in the onset and maintenance of eating disorders. Moreover, three arms exist, one for healthy controls including only one EEG assessment, and two interventional arms for participants with eating disorders. Participants in one interventional arm will receive food-specific inhibitory control training, while participants in the other interventional arm will receive general inhibitory control training. These are delivered through a website task (go/no-go training),

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Food specific inhibitory control training

The stimuli in this task will involve pictures of food.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Food specific Inhibitory control training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

It involves a go/no-go task in which participants are requested to respond by clicking a particular button when a specific stimulus appears and requested to withhold their response when another particular stimulus appears. Stimuli in this intervention include photos of food and non-food.

Implementation intentions

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

It involves designing "if-then" strategies of behaviour. Participants will be asked to describe situations in which they feel they are more prone to behave in a way that is not congruent to their long term goals, and then to plan strategies to behave differently when faced with this situation in the future.

General inhibitory control training

The stimuli in this task will not involve pictures of food, but pictures of stationary and household items.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Implementation intentions

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

It involves designing "if-then" strategies of behaviour. Participants will be asked to describe situations in which they feel they are more prone to behave in a way that is not congruent to their long term goals, and then to plan strategies to behave differently when faced with this situation in the future.

General inhibitory control training

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

It involves a go/no-go task in which participants are requested to respond by clicking a particular button when a specific stimulus appears and requested to withhold their response when another particular stimulus appears. Stimuli in this intervention include only non-food pictures.

Baseline brain activation assessment (healthy controls)

This arm is included to assess brain activation using EEG among healthy controls at baseline in order to compare responses to participants with eating disorders.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Food specific Inhibitory control training

It involves a go/no-go task in which participants are requested to respond by clicking a particular button when a specific stimulus appears and requested to withhold their response when another particular stimulus appears. Stimuli in this intervention include photos of food and non-food.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Implementation intentions

It involves designing "if-then" strategies of behaviour. Participants will be asked to describe situations in which they feel they are more prone to behave in a way that is not congruent to their long term goals, and then to plan strategies to behave differently when faced with this situation in the future.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

General inhibitory control training

It involves a go/no-go task in which participants are requested to respond by clicking a particular button when a specific stimulus appears and requested to withhold their response when another particular stimulus appears. Stimuli in this intervention include only non-food pictures.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1\) Diagnosis of an Eating Disorder (Bulimia Nervosa or Binge Eating Disorder); 2) No severe psychiatric comorbidity (e.g. psychosis); 3) Fluency in English; 4) No visual impairment; 5) No cognitive/neurological impairment; 6) No drugs or alcohol abuse; 7) No use of weight-loss medication; 8 No metabolic disorder; 9) Above 18 years old and below 60 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

1\) No diagnosis of an eating disorder; 2) Severe psychiatric comorbidity; 3) No English language fluency; 4) Visual impairment (not correctable with eye-wear); 5) Cognitive/neurological impairment; 6) Drug or alcohol abuse; 7) Use of weight-loss medication; 8) A metabolic disorder; 9) Below 18 years old and above 60 years old.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No