Intervention for Emotional Eating in Youth
试验速览
- 阶段
- Unknown
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 试验地点
- 4
- 主要终点
- The emotional eating subscale of the Chinese version of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
The study aims to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a brief self-compassion interventions targeting adolescents with elevated emotional eating problems. The self-compassion intervention will be adapted from Kelly & Carter (2015)’s three-week self-help self-compassion intervention for binge eating.
The present study will first investigate the efficacy of the enhanced self-compassion intervention by comparing the treatment outcome on emotional eating of the intervention group with the control group. Apart from the primary outcome, the mechanisms of change through possible mediating roles of shame, experiential avoidance and self-compassion will also be evaluated in the study. Furthermore, to explore the additional value of the attachment prime technique, the treatment effect of the self-compassion intervention with the enhanced content on secure attachment priming will be compared with a basic self-compassion intervention without such components.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 主要目的
- 随机平行对照
- 盲法
- Premuted Block Randomization, Participants Will Be Blinded To Their Treatment Allocation.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 至 39（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •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.
排除标准
- •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.
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention group 1
Control group
结局指标
主要结局
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
次要结局
- Chinese version of the Experience of Shame Scale
- State Self-Compassion Scale
- Brief Experiential Avoidance Questionnaire (BEAQ; Gamez et al., 2014)
- The state shame subscale of the Self-Emotion Scale developed by Chen & Wu (2008)
- Subjective Units of Distress scale (SUDs)
- The negative affect subscale of the Chinese version of the International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Short Form (I-PANAS-SF; Liu et al., 2020; Thompson, 2017)
- 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)
- SCOFF questionnaire