Status:

COMPLETED

Food Addiction Clinical Treatment Program

Lead Sponsor:

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Conditions:

Food Addiction

Eligibility:

All Genders

25+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of this current study is to establish the feasibility of, and preliminary support for, a clinical treatment program utilizing interventions from various empirically supported treatments fo...

Detailed Description

To establish the feasibility of recruiting, enrolling, and treating individuals who meet criteria for FA in a group behavioral intervention for 16 weeks. Data from the current study will be used for t...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Age \> 25
  • BMI \>25
  • YFAS \> 6/11 (severe range)
  • willing to commit to a 16 week group therapy program from 4 - 5:30 pm on Thursdays in Winston-Salem, NC
  • English speaking

Exclusion

  • Current participation in professional weight loss program and unwillingness to suspend it for 16 weeks during treatment
  • obesity medications with exception of diabetes medication with weight loss benefit (ie metformin),
  • current nicotine use or substance use disorder (based on meeting the clinical cutoff for the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test and/or Cannabis Use Disorder Identification Test
  • history of weight loss surgery,
  • current/history of severe mental illness (\> 3 psychiatric hospitalizations since age 18,
  • schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder, or personality disorder),
  • current/history of lithium, abilify, saphris, vraylor, clozaril, latuda, zyprexa, seroquel, risperdal, or Geodon,
  • current pregnancy or breastfeeding,
  • prior diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, diagnosis of bulimia nervosa in the last 5 years,
  • high currents rates of restrictive eating disorder symptoms based on the Eating Disorder Diagnosis Scale (EDDS; (i.e., any endorsement of vomiting or laxative/diuretic use to manage weight and endorsement of fasting or excessive exercise more than 2 or 3 times a week)

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 21 2023

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

September 7 2023

Estimated Enrollment :

2 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04373343

Start Date

March 21 2023

End Date

September 7 2023

Last Update

November 7 2023

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Wake Forest Health Sciences

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157