i-BEAT: Binge-Eating Adolescent And Young Adults Treatment – a training program for youth and young adults with binge-eating - i-BEAT

niversität Fribourg0 sites700 target enrollmentNovember 27, 2020

Overview

Phase: Phase 3
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Binge Eating DisorderLoss of Control EatingBinge Eating Episodes
Sponsor: niversität Fribourg
Enrollment: 700
Status: Recruiting
Last Updated: last year

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

November 27, 2020

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

last year

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

niversität Fribourg

•Youth suffering from LOC:
•Participants fulfilling inclusion criteria are eligible for the study:
•\- Willingness and self\-reported motivation to participate
•\- Gender: males, females and others
•\- Age: 14\-24 years (according to the term youth defined e.g. by the UN)
•\- Full diagnosis of BED according to DSM\-5
•\- Subclinical BED or LOC (loss of control eating over a subjective amount of food, which does not fulfil the criteria of an objective large amount of food of a fully developed BED (subjective binges): 3 episodes of objective binge episodes or LOC during the last 3 months accompanied by at least 3 out of 5 behavioural indicators (according to DSM\-5\) and/ or some degree of distress.
•\- Informed Consent as documented by signature: Patients need to give informed consent about the procedure (study 1: questionnaire\-base and/or App\-based study, and/or study 2: VR Cyberball game and/or epigenetics, and/ or study 3: i\-BEAT trial) and confirm their willingness to participate in the full research program (study 1 – 3\) or single studies (questionnaire based and/or App\-based study 1, study 2 (Cyberball and/or epigenetics) and/or treatment study 3 or combinations of studies.
•Youth participating in the HCG:
•Participants fulfilling all of the following inclusion criteria are eligible for the study:

•The presence of any of the following exclusion criteria will lead to exclusion of the participant:
•\- Language/ skills: Patients will be excluded if they do not have self\-reported sufficient German language skills
•\- Current or past mental disorder
•\- Pregnancy (App\-based study 1, study 2 and 3\)
•\- Previous enrolment in the study
•Additional in\- and exclusion criteria apply for study 2, where youth must have intact or corrected vision capacity and are excluded if they report nausea in VR.