The effect of DASH diet in comparison with low calorie diet on food addiction and weight management in individuals with food addiction and weight regain 2 years after bariatric gastric surgery

The effect of low calorie DASH diet in comparison with low calorie diet on food addiction and weight management in individuals with food addiction and weight regain 2 years after bariatric gastric surgery

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Phase 3

Study type

Interventional

Source

IRCT

Registry ID

IRCT20140804018677N26

Enrollment

Registered

2023-06-18

Start date

2023-06-10

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2023-06-26

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Conditions

Overweight and Obesity. Morbid (severe) obesity due to excess calories

Interventions

Intervention 1: Intervention group: The intervention period in this clinical trial will be 16 weeks. Intervention group 1: People receive DASH-low calorie diet. Considering that people have undergone

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Willingness to participate in the study At least 2 years have passed since surgery Weight gain again after surgery No or very mild food addiction before sleeve surgery Suffering from food addiction based on the Yale questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Any acute illness Suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease Taking drugs that affect appetite and weight pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Weight. Timepoint: at the beginning of the study and 16 weeks later at the end of the study. Method of measurement: Scale.;Food addiction. Timepoint: at the beginning of the study and 16 weeks later at the end of the study. Method of measurement: Food addiction questionnaire is not officially defined in DSM-5. But evidence has shown that there is considerable overlap between the characteristics of food addiction and the DSM-5 criteria for drug addiction. Therefore, the YFAS food addiction scale questionnaire, which is based on DSM-5 criteria, is widely used to diagnose food addiction. In the present study, food addiction was diagnosed by the YFAS questionnaire. The YFAS is a 25-item questionnaire, which examines eating behaviors based on seven diagnostic criteria for drug addiction (by DSM-5). People are diagnosed with food addiction if they have three or more of the seven criteria in the past year, along with the presence of a clinical disorder in the past 12 months. The total scores of this questionnaire are calculated from 0 to 7.	—

Measure

Time frame

Weight. Timepoint: at the beginning of the study and 16 weeks later at the end of the study. Method of measurement: Scale.;Food addiction. Timepoint: at the beginning of the study and 16 weeks later at the end of the study. Method of measurement: Food addiction questionnaire is not officially defined in DSM-5. But evidence has shown that there is considerable overlap between the characteristics of food addiction and the DSM-5 criteria for drug addiction. Therefore, the YFAS food addiction scale questionnaire, which is based on DSM-5 criteria, is widely used to diagnose food addiction. In the present study, food addiction was diagnosed by the YFAS questionnaire. The YFAS is a 25-item questionnaire, which examines eating behaviors based on seven diagnostic criteria for drug addiction (by DSM-5). People are diagnosed with food addiction if they have three or more of the seven criteria in the past year, along with the presence of a clinical disorder in the past 12 months. The total scores of this questionnaire are calculated from 0 to 7.

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Countries

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

Contacts

Public ContactSoodeh Razghei Jahromi

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences

soodehrazeghi@gmail.com+98 21 2235 7483

Outcome results

None listed

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