Clinical trial NCT04457804: A Brief Virtual ACT Workshop for Emotional Eating
Official title: A Brief Virtual ACT Workshop for Emotional Eating
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Emotional Eating
Eating Behavior
Lead sponsor: McGill University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-07-07
Enrollment: 30
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: All participants will be assigned to the same intervention.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Emotional eating is a behaviour that has been linked to weight concerns, mental health concerns, and disordered eating. Effective interventions have been developed to treat emotional eating, however these exist solely in the context of promoting weight loss. Emotional eating is not exclusive to those who struggle with weight and thus interventions are needed that target those who engage in emotional eating regardless of their weight status. The present study aims to do so through the implementation of a brief online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshop for emotional eaters.

Detailed description: Emotional eating is defined as increased food consumption in response to negative emotions, and has been linked to weight concerns, mental health concerns, and disordered eating behaviours. Effective interventions have been developed that address emotional eating, namely to improve weight loss. Such interventions are based in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which encourages tolerance of internal cues, such as emotions, and external cues, such as food.

Previous studies have found that brief ACT interventions are effective for the reduction of emotional eating. Our laboratory has recently developed and pilot-tested a one-day ACT workshop intervention for emotional eating, which was found to be effective for reducing emotional eating and deemed feasible and acceptable by participants.

The present study was developed with the aim to adapt the above mentioned workshop intervention to an online format in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. The study aims to test the efficacy, feasibility and acceptability of a brief, online version of the above mentioned one-day ACT workshop for emotional eating. The workshops will be delivered through the Zoom online platform.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Self-identifying as emotional-eater
* Being over the age of 18

Exclusion Criteria:

- N/A

Primary outcomes:
measure: Emotional Eating - Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Emotional Eating - 2 weeks post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Emotional Eating - 3 months Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Distress Tolerance - Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Distress Tolerance - 2-weeks Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Distress Tolerance - 3-months Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: Food Craving Acceptance and Action - Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Food Craving Acceptance and Action - 2-weeks Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Food Craving Acceptance and Action - 3-months Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: Mindful Eating - Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Mindful Eating - 2-weeks Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Mindful Eating - 3-months Post-Intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: ACT Values Application - Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: ACT Values Application - 2-weeks Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: ACT Values Application - 3-months Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: Emotional Eating Frequency - Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Emotional Eating Frequency - 2-weeks Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Emotional Eating Frequency - 3-months Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: Ability to Stop Emotional Eating - Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed at post-intervention (1 week following the first session)
measure: Ability to Stop Emotional Eating - 2-weeks Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 2-weeks following the second (last) session
measure: Ability to Stop Emotional Eating - 3-months Post-intervention
timeFrame: Assessed 3-months following the second (last) session
measure: Feasibility Data: Recruitment Rates
timeFrame: Assessed during the recruitment period (i.e. over a period of 2 months)
measure: Feasibility Data: Workshop Attendance Rates
timeFrame: Assessed during the treatment period: from baseline to post-treatment (i.e. over the course of 1 week).
measure: Feasibility Data: Dropout Rates
timeFrame: Assessed from baseline to the 3-month follow-up assessment.
measure: Feasibility Data: Loss-to-Follow-Up Rates
timeFrame: Assessed at the 2-week follow-up time point and the 3-month follow-up time point.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: McGill University
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: McGill University
name: Bärbel Knauper, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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