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An Acceptance-Based Behavioral Intervention vs. Nutritional Counselling for Weight Loss in Psychotic Illness

NCT02130596 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 16

Last updated 2014-11-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Obesity occurs at 2-3 times the general population rate in persons living with a psychotic illness. The risk of obesity-related serious medical conditions like diabetes and heart disease are also two to three times higher in this population. Traditional behavioral weight management approaches help more than half of these individuals to lose weight, but a significant proportion are not helped. This pilot study is intended to determine the feasibility, efficacy, acceptability, and potential clinical utility of an intervention that integrates mindfulness, acceptance, distress tolerance, and motivation and commitment combined with traditional behavioral strategies for weight loss. This is the first study to investigate such an acceptance-based behavioral intervention for weight loss in psychotic illness. The results from this study will help to determine whether future research in this area is warranted with a larger sample, over a longer period of time.

Primary hypothesis: Weight loss will be greater in individuals who receive the acceptance based behavioral intervention, relative to those who receive nutritional counseling.

Conditions

  • Psychotic Illnesses

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Acceptance-Based Behavioral Intervention

OTHER

Nutritional Counselling

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rohan Ganguli, M.D. · Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-02-28
Primary Completion
2014-10-31
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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