Barlow's unIfied Protocol for emoTional Eating (BITE): a Pre-post Design

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT05641350

Acronym

BITE

Enrollment

Registered

2022-12-07

Start date

2022-12-01

Completion date

2023-12-01

Last updated

2023-12-05

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Conditions

Emotional Eating

Brief summary

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention program, based on the Barlow's protocol, in patients with emotional eating with the aim of improving the emotional eating pattern. The design is quasi-experimental pre-post with a control group (waiting list) and evaluation of the maintenance of the response after 6 months of the end of the program. Includes outpatients from the Eating Disorders Unit and the Psychiatry Unit of a Hospital. A sample size of 26 participants is considered in the experimental group, and another 26 more in the control group.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALBarlow's Unified Protocol

Adaptation of the cognitive-behavioral Barlow's Unified Protocol for emotional eating pattern.

Study design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 65 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Outpatients from eating behavior disorder outpatient clinics and psychiatric outpatient clinics. * Age between 18 and 65 years. * Score of more than 2.46 on the emotional eating subscale of the DEBQ scale

Exclusion criteria

* Diagnosis of active Eating Disorder, that is, without at least 6 months of symptomatic remission or that exceed the cut-off point on the EAT-26 scale. * Patients with severe mental disorder with or without psychotic symptoms (schizophreniform disorders, bipolar spectrum disorders, major depression) * Patients with some other medical disorder that presents with impulse dysregulation, such as epilepsy, frontal-type dementia... * Patients with an IQ \< 85 * Patients who do not give consent. * Patients who do not understand or speak Spanish or Catalan.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Emotional eating score assessed by the Emotional eating sub-scale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ-EE)	8 weeks

Countries

Spain

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026