Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Obesity and Eating Behaviors

Completed

• Conditions: Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Interventions: Other: Questionnaires

• Registration Number: NCT04431284
• Lead Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Brief Summary

COVID-19 lockdown presents particular challenges for people living with obesity. Indeed during this period, the lifestyle was deeply modified: diet, activity, and sleep behaviours, home office, take care of child, social distancing... All of these modifications may have led to stress and anxiety. It has been previously demonstrated that high perceived stress levels are correlated with high preference for sweet and fat foods . In this context caution would be exercised in obese patients especially those with binge eating disorders. Indeed binge eating disorder is characterized by compulsive overeating or consuming abnormal amounts of food while feeling unable to stop and a loss of control. And one key trigger of binge eating disorder is stress and anxiety. Thus, patients with binge eating disorders may have been more sensitive to the impact of lockdown and thus urgently would require appropriated care management.

The main objective is to compare the eating behaviour between obese patients with or without binge eating disorders. The second objective is to compare the weight evolution between the two groups before and after the lockdown.

To reach these objectives, the scientific team of the CIO project proposes to contact by phone and e-mail obese patients (with or without binge eating disorders) who have been hospitalized for their obesity disease before the start of the lockdown in the Endocrinology department of the Lyon Hospital. The patients will be asked to fill in several questionnaires (using an online tool) allowing to evaluate their mood, anxiety, eating behaviour, binge eating disorders... during the lockdown. The results of these questionnaires will be compared to those collected during their hospitalisation before the lockdown.

The hypothesis is that participants suffering from binge eating disorder will have more sever eating behaviour perturbations as higher level of stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2020-06-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-06-11
• Study Start: 2020-06-16
• Study First Posted: 2020-06-16
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-16
• Study Completion: 2020-12-16
• Status Verified: 2021-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-01-29
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 37

Inclusion Criteria

• severely obese patients

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Exclusion Criteria

• patients do not experiment the full lockdown period

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Obese patients with binge eating disorders	Questionnaires	Severely obese patients (with or without binge eating disorders, Binge Eating Sclae \>= 16) who have been hospitalized for obesity assessment before the start of the lockdown in the Endocrinology department of the Lyon Hospital
Obese patients without binge eating disorders	Questionnaires	Severely obese patients (with or without binge eating disorders, Binge Eating Sclae \>= 16) who have been hospitalized for obesity assessment before the start of the lockdown in the Endocrinology department of the Lyon Hospital

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Comparison of the BMI (kg/m²) evolution between the two groups	Day 21
Score comparison of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire	Day 21

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Intégré de l'obésité de Lyon / HCL; 🇫🇷 Pierre-Bénite, France