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Nutritional Counseling Therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on body weight in women with obesity and depression

Effect of Nutritional Counseling Therapy Associated with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on body weight in individuals with obesity and major depressive disorder: a sham-controlled parallel-blind randomized clinical trial

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-4ck2fqg
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2022-12-01
Start date
2022-03-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

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Conditions

Major depressive disorder

Interventions

A randomized, duble-blinded, parallel, controlled clinical trial will be conducted. Volunteers will be randomized into 3 groups: active tDCS + nutritional counseling therapy (tDCSa-TAN), tDCS-Sham + n
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F04.754.137.350

Sponsors

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Lead Sponsor
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Collaborator

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
Female
Age
18 Years to 65 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: women; with obesity; with major depression; literate; right-handed; who have a Hamilton scale score greater than 18; body mass index greater than 30 kg/m2; adults aged between 18 and 65 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: pregnant women; shift workers; in weight loss treatment in the last 30 days; who underwent bariatric surgery; have a contraindication for the use of transcranial direct current stimulation

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
It is expected to find a reduction in abdominal circumference in centimeters over the 16 weeks, in 3 collection moments, beginning and end of the intervention and in the follow-up, verified by means of anthropometry, from the finding of a statistically significant reduction with the test. suitable for repeated measurements.—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
It is expected to find a reduction in the score of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) over the 16 weeks, in 3 moments of collection, beginning and end of the intervention and in the follow-up, performed by the BDI questionnaire, from the significant reduction in a statistical test suitable for repeated measures.;It is expected to find a reduction in body mass over the 16 weeks, in 3 collection moments, beginning and end of the intervention and in the follow-up, performed by a scale with 100g gradation, from the significant reduction in an adequate statistical test for repeated measurements.—

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactDébora Venske

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

debora.venske@ufsc.br+55 (48) 3721-2894

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)