A Brief Virtual ACT Workshop for Emotional Eating

NCT ID: NCT04457804

Last Updated: 2021-09-05

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-18

Study Completion Date

2020-09-25

Brief Summary

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Emotional eating is a behaviour that has been linked to weight concerns, mental health concerns, and disordered eating. Effective interventions have been developed to treat emotional eating, however these exist solely in the context of promoting weight loss. Emotional eating is not exclusive to those who struggle with weight and thus interventions are needed that target those who engage in emotional eating regardless of their weight status. The present study aims to do so through the implementation of a brief online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshop for emotional eaters.

Detailed Description

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Emotional eating is defined as increased food consumption in response to negative emotions, and has been linked to weight concerns, mental health concerns, and disordered eating behaviours. Effective interventions have been developed that address emotional eating, namely to improve weight loss. Such interventions are based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which encourages tolerance of internal cues, such as emotions, and external cues, such as food.

Previous studies have found that brief ACT interventions are effective for the reduction of emotional eating. Our laboratory has recently developed and pilot-tested a one-day ACT workshop intervention for emotional eating, which was found to be effective for reducing emotional eating and deemed feasible and acceptable by participants.

The present study was developed with the aim to adapt the above mentioned workshop intervention to an online format in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The study aims to test the efficacy, feasibility and acceptability of a brief, online version of the above mentioned one-day ACT workshop for emotional eating. The workshops will be delivered through the Zoom online platform.

Conditions

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Emotional Eating Eating Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

All participants will be assigned to the same intervention.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Online ACT workshop for Emotional Eating

All participants will be assigned to 2, 1.5 hour interventions using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) techniques to help reduce emotional eating.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Virtual ACT Workshop for Emotional Eating

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

This is a brief online intervention using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) technique to target and reduce emotional eating. The intervention will be modeled after Frayn and Knäuper's 1-day ACT workshop for emotional eating intervention, which was derived from Forman and colleagues' "Mind Your Health Program". During the workshop, the following topics will be discussed, based on the three processes of ACT: (1) values clarification/commitment, (2) acceptance/distress tolerance, and (3) mindfulness/awareness.

Interventions

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Virtual ACT Workshop for Emotional Eating

This is a brief online intervention using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) technique to target and reduce emotional eating. The intervention will be modeled after Frayn and Knäuper's 1-day ACT workshop for emotional eating intervention, which was derived from Forman and colleagues' "Mind Your Health Program". During the workshop, the following topics will be discussed, based on the three processes of ACT: (1) values clarification/commitment, (2) acceptance/distress tolerance, and (3) mindfulness/awareness.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Self-identifying as emotional-eater
* Being over the age of 18

Exclusion Criteria

\- N/A
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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McGill University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Barbel Knauper

James McGill Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Bärbel Knauper, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

McGill University

Locations

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McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Forman EM, Butryn ML, Juarascio AS, Bradley LE, Lowe MR, Herbert JD, Shaw JA. The mind your health project: a randomized controlled trial of an innovative behavioral treatment for obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Jun;21(6):1119-26. doi: 10.1002/oby.20169. Epub 2013 May 13.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23666772 (View on PubMed)

Geliebter A, Aversa A. Emotional eating in overweight, normal weight, and underweight individuals. Eat Behav. 2003 Jan;3(4):341-7. doi: 10.1016/s1471-0153(02)00100-9.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15000995 (View on PubMed)

Hou L, Li F, Wang Y, Ou Z, Xu D, Tan W, Dai M. Association between dietary patterns and coronary heart disease: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Int J Clin Exp Med. 2015 Jan 15;8(1):781-90. eCollection 2015.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 25785058 (View on PubMed)

Konttinen H, Mannisto S, Sarlio-Lahteenkorva S, Silventoinen K, Haukkala A. Emotional eating, depressive symptoms and self-reported food consumption. A population-based study. Appetite. 2010 Jun;54(3):473-9. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.01.014. Epub 2010 Feb 4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20138944 (View on PubMed)

Lillis J, Niemeier HM, Thomas JG, Unick J, Ross KM, Leahey TM, Kendra KE, Dorfman L, Wing RR. A randomized trial of an acceptance-based behavioral intervention for weight loss in people with high internal disinhibition. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Dec;24(12):2509-2514. doi: 10.1002/oby.21680. Epub 2016 Nov 2.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27804255 (View on PubMed)

Oliver G, Wardle J, Gibson EL. Stress and food choice: a laboratory study. Psychosom Med. 2000 Nov-Dec;62(6):853-65. doi: 10.1097/00006842-200011000-00016.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 11139006 (View on PubMed)

Frayn M, Khanyari S, Knauper B. A 1-day acceptance and commitment therapy workshop leads to reductions in emotional eating in adults. Eat Weight Disord. 2020 Oct;25(5):1399-1411. doi: 10.1007/s40519-019-00778-6. Epub 2019 Sep 20.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 31541426 (View on PubMed)

Di Sante J, Frayn M, Angelescu A, Knauper B. Proof-of-concept testing of a brief virtual ACT workshop for emotional eating. Appetite. 2024 Aug 1;199:107386. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107386. Epub 2024 Apr 30.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38692511 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol

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Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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