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Reduction of the Speed of Eating as an Intervention in Obesity

NCT02381327 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 386

Last updated 2015-11-26

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Patients diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) overeat food but, as opposed to patients with bulimia nervosa, they do not compensate for their increased food intake and therefore their body weight increases. It is hypothesized that the speed of eating has increased in BED and that body weight will decrease if the speed of eating is decreased. The speed of eating is measured using Mandometer, an eating disorder conditioning tool, class 2 device cleared by the FDA for the treatment of eating disorders. Mandometer is a scale connected to a computer, patients eat food from a plate on the scale and the computer stores the weight loss of the plate, thus recording the speed of eating. Patients decrease their speed of eating by following training curves on the computer screen while eating. The emergence of their own speed of eating on the screen makes this possible. Patients use Mandometer for lunch and dinner over one week at home to estimate their speed of eating and their food intake as the first step of clinical pratice. Mandometer is then programmed with how much and how quickly to eat and patients practice eating using Mandometer at home over the subsequent treatment. Data from 166 BED-patients using Mandometer at home and from a total of 354 patients who have been treated have been collected. 30 normal weight, healthy subjects will be recruited to test the hypothesis that their speed of eating is lower than that of the BED-patients. These control subjects will eat lunch and dinner using Mandometer at home over one week, but they will, obviously, not participate in treatment.

Conditions

  • Binge-Eating Disorder

Interventions

DEVICE

Mandometer

Mandometer is an eating disorder conditioning tool, class 2 device cleared by the FDA for the treatment of eating disorders. Mandometer offers on-line, real-time feedback on how much food to eat and how quickly to eat during a meal.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mando Group AB

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Per Sodersten, PhD · Karolinska Institutet

  • Maryam Esfandiari, MS · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
28 Years
Max Age
56 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-02-28
Primary Completion
2015-09-30
Completion
2015-11-30

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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