Emotional Eating
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention group 1:self-compassion intervention
Control group:non-active control condition
Sponsors
The University of Hong Kong
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
10 Years to 39 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants will be youth from the age of 12 to 39 recruited from secondary schools, university, and the general community in Hong Kong on a voluntary basis. The inclusion criteria will be having emotional eating, indicated by a score > 3.25 on the emotional eating subscale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ-E), and regular access to the internet for accessing study materials. The cut-off score of 3.25 is recommended to be used in research to identify individuals with negative emotional eating (Frayn & Knäuper, 2018; van Strien et al., 2012) and has been used for categorizing emotional eaters in a Hong Kong prevalence study with undergraduate sample (Sze et al., 2021). Participants must be fluent in Cantonese and able to read and write in traditional Chinese.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Participants will be excluded from the study if they are: 1) having medical condition that known to affect eating; 2) having substance abuse; 3) having active psychotic, manic, dissociative or PTSD symptoms; 4) concurrent psychotherapy treatment or adjusting to changing psychiatric medication.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The emotional eating subscale of the Chinese version of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire;Self-compassion Scale – Youth version;Emotional eating frequency by the total number of days and episodes over past week ; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| State Self-Compassion Scale;Chinese version of the Experience of Shame Scale ;Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ; Gamez et al., 2014) ;The state shame subscale of the Self-Emotion Scale developed by Chen & Wu (2008) ;Urge to Eat;Short version of State Adult Attachment Measure (SAAM-S; Gillath et al., 2009; McGuire et al., 2018 );The Fear of Self-Compassion Subscale of the Fears of Compassion Scale (FCS-SC) ; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactCheung Suet Ying
University of Hong Kong
Outcome results
None listed