Food Addiction Clinical Treatment Program
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Food Addiction
In brief
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 for obesity-related eating disorders and substance use disorders
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04373343
- Run by
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- People needed
- 2
- Starts
- 2023-03-21
- Expected to finish
- 2023-09-07
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-11-07
Who can join
Age: 25 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- 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
You may not qualify if…
- 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)
Where it is running
- Wake Forest Health Sciences — Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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