ArticleEating behaviors2016
Effect of dose of behavioral treatment for obesity on binge eating severity.
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- The Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating in Adults Seeking Obesity Treatment: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Eating disorder risk during behavioral weight management in adults with overweight or obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2023Pooled it
- Motivational interviewing in eHealth and telehealth interventions for weight loss: A systematic review.Preventive medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Integrated weight loss and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for the treatment of recurrent binge eating and high body mass index: a randomized controlled trial.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Trial
- Unpacking weight management interventions measuring eating disorder risk in adults: coding of components of interventions in a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Psychotherapies for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Relations between forms of dietary restraint, restriction, and loss-of-control eating among adolescents seeking weight control: An ecological momentary assessment study.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Depressive symptoms, psychological flexibility, and binge eating in individuals seeking behavioral weight loss treatment.Journal of contextual behavioral science · 2019Article
- Epidemiology and treatment of eating disorders in men and women of middle and older age.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2017Article
- Prevalence of obesity and comorbid eating disorder behaviors in South Australia from 1995 to 2015.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2017Article
- HAPIFED: a Healthy APproach to weIght management and Food in Eating Disorders: a case series and manual development.Journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe evaluated the effects of three doses of a behavioral intervention for obesity (High dose=24 sessions, Moderate=16 sessions, Low=8 sessions) compared with a nutrition education control group (Control) on binge eating. We also examined whether participants with clinically significant improvements in binge eating had better treatment adherence and weight-loss outcomes than those who did not experience clinically significant improvements in binge eating. Finally, we examined the relation of pretreatment binge eating severity to changes at six months.
methodsParticipants included 572 adults (female=78.7%; baseline mean±SD: age=52.7±11.2years, BMI=36.4±3.9kg/m(2)) who provided binge eating data at baseline. We evaluated binge eating severity (assessed via the Binge Eating Scale) and weight status at baseline and six months, as well as treatment adherence over six months.
resultsAt six months, participants in the Moderate and High treatment conditions reported greater reductions in binge eating severity than participants in the Low and Control conditions, ps<.02. Participants who demonstrated improvements in binge eating severity reported greater dietary self-monitoring adherence and attained larger weight losses than those who did not experience clinically significant reductions, ps<.001. Pretreatment binge eating severity predicted less improvement in binge eating severity over six months and fewer days with dietary self-monitoring records completed, ps≤.002.
conclusionA moderate or high dose of behavioral weight-loss treatment may be required to produce clinically significant reductions in binge eating severity in adults with obesity.
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