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EMDR vs. CBT in the Treatment of Inpatients With Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder: the EMDRDCA Study.

NCT06474689 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 8

Last updated 2024-06-26

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Summary

Overweight and obesity are linked with Binge Eating Disorder (BED). Traditionally, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the therapeutic approach indicated both for inpatient and outpatient treatment of BED. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) could be more effective for the treatment of BED, in particular with patients who lived one or more traumatic experiences.

A randomized controlled clinical trial is ongoing in order to test the hypothesis that a 4-week EMDR intervention is more effective than a parallel CBT intervention in the treatment of inpatients with obesity and BED who experienced a traumatic event and are referred to a residential rehabilitation program. Outcomes are the reduction of binge eating symptoms, emotional eating, psychological distress and trauma-related variables, and the improvement of emotion regulation from baseline to treatment completion.

Conditions

  • Binge-Eating Disorder

Interventions

OTHER

EMDR

EMDR is based on the Adaptive Information Process (AIP) model, which posits that the traumatic event experienced by a subject is stored in memory along with the disturbing emotions, perceptions, cognitions, and physical sensations that characterized that moment. All this information is stored in a dysfunctional way within neural networks and unable to connect with other networks with useful information. The information enclosed in the neural networks, not being able to be processed, continue to cause discomfort in the subject, up to the onset of pathologies such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological disorders. The goal of EMDR is to restore the adaptive processing of information in order to achieve the adaptive resolution by creating new and more functional connections.

OTHER

CBT

CBT-E is based on the transdiagnostic theory for eating disorders. According to this theory, there is an overvaluation of shape, weight, eating and their control that people use to judge themselves which represents the core feature of maintaining eating disorder symptoms including binge eating. The goals of CBT-E are to increase the understanding of eating disorders, reduce weight concerns, and establish a pattern of regular eating by addressing the mechanisms that have been maintaining the eating disorder psychopathology including body image disturbances and reactions to life events and emotions. The goals of CBT-OB are to help patients to reach, accept and maintain a healthy weight loss by adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istituto Auxologico Italiano

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-05-01
Primary Completion
2024-01-01
Completion
2024-12-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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