Body dissatisfaction in patients with Binge Eating Disorder: Cognitve and affective mechanism of maintenance.

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00008303

Enrollment

200

Registered

2015-05-21

Start date

2015-06-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

F50.9 E66

Interventions

Group 1: Binge Eating Disorder - Body image training: recurrent guided body image exposures in front of the mirror, 4 sessions à 90 minutes (within 4 weeks). Group 2: Binge Eating Disorder - Waiting

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

Female

Age

18 Years to 69 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: BED-Group: BMI between 25 and 45 + objectve eating attacks Obesity-Group: BMI between 25 and 45 + no objective eating attacks General: female sex normal or corrected vision.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Insufficient German language skills, serious physical illness (e.g. cancer), current pregnancy or breastfeeding period, dyschromatopsia or serious eye disease, current alcohol/substance dependence, current hallucinations or delusions, current manic episode, Borderline personality disorder, current suicidal tendency, bulimia nervosa, current participation in other treatment studies or weight loss programs.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Two Messurements - pre and post (before and after the body image training): Eyetracking: Glance duration and frequency for beautiful and ugly body parts. Glance duration and frequency for self and control body. Saccade latency. Think Aloud method: Voice frequency and heart rate.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Self-report data on eating disorder symptoms and body dissatisfaction by means of questionniares: Eating Disorder Examination (EDE-Q) and Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). Fragebogen zum Körperbild, FKB-20; (Clement & Löwe, 1996)Body Attitude Test, BAT; Probst, Vandereycken, Coppenolle, & Vanderlinden, 1995), Einstellungen zu Figur, Gewicht und äußerem Erscheinungsbild (FGE; Diehl, 1999), Thought Shape Fusion, TSF; und Körperkognitionsfragebogen; (Hilbert, 2000) , Impact of Weight on Quality of Life, IWQOL; Kolotkin, Head, Hamilton, & Tse, 1995; deutsche Version: Mueller et al., 2011),Body Checking Questionnaire, BCQ (Reas, Whisenhunt, Netemeyer, & Williamson, 2002; deutsche Version: Vocks, Moswald, & Legenbauer, 2008), Body Checking Cognition Scale, BCCS (Mountford, Haase, & Waller, 2006; deutsche Version: Neubauer, Bender, Tuschen-Caffier, Svaldi, & Blechert, 2010), Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire, BIAQ (Rosen, Srebnik, Saltzberg, & Wendt, 1991; deutsche Version: Legenbauer, Vocks, & Schütt-Strömel, 2007), Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised, ASI-R (Cash, Melnyk, & Hrabosky, 2004;deutsche Version: Grocholewski, Tuschen-Caffier, Margraf, & Heinrichs, 2011) Data collection: pre an post training, as well as 3 month after end of training (follow up).	—

Measure

Time frame

Self-report data on eating disorder symptoms and body dissatisfaction by means of questionniares: Eating Disorder Examination (EDE-Q) and Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ). Fragebogen zum Körperbild, FKB-20; (Clement & Löwe, 1996)Body Attitude Test, BAT; Probst, Vandereycken, Coppenolle, & Vanderlinden, 1995), Einstellungen zu Figur, Gewicht und äußerem Erscheinungsbild (FGE; Diehl, 1999), Thought Shape Fusion, TSF; und Körperkognitionsfragebogen; (Hilbert, 2000) , Impact of Weight on Quality of Life, IWQOL; Kolotkin, Head, Hamilton, & Tse, 1995; deutsche Version: Mueller et al., 2011),Body Checking Questionnaire, BCQ (Reas, Whisenhunt, Netemeyer, & Williamson, 2002; deutsche Version: Vocks, Moswald, & Legenbauer, 2008), Body Checking Cognition Scale, BCCS (Mountford, Haase, & Waller, 2006; deutsche Version: Neubauer, Bender, Tuschen-Caffier, Svaldi, & Blechert, 2010), Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire, BIAQ (Rosen, Srebnik, Saltzberg, & Wendt, 1991; deutsche Version: Legenbauer, Vocks, & Schütt-Strömel, 2007), Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised, ASI-R (Cash, Melnyk, & Hrabosky, 2004;deutsche Version: Grocholewski, Tuschen-Caffier, Margraf, & Heinrichs, 2011) Data collection: pre an post training, as well as 3 month after end of training (follow up).

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Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactKerstin Krohmer

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, FB Psychologie, Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie

kerstin.krohmer@uni-tuebingen.deDE +49 (0) 7071/29 75025

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026