Trial reportEating and weight disorders : EWD2019
Effects of a dialectical behavior therapy-based skills group intervention for obese individuals: a Brazilian pilot study.
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- Mindfulness-based interventions for binge eating: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Depression and obesity among females, are sex specificities considered?Archives of women's mental health · 2021Pooled it
- A Remotely Delivered Weight Management Service to Support Existing Obesity Services in the UK National Health Service: Preliminary Findings From an Early-Stage Service Evaluation.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- Feasibility and Efficacy of Intensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training in An Outpatient Setting for A Group of Patients with Extensive Care Needs - A Transdiagnostic Approach.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2023Article
- Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- The moderating effects of mindful eating on the relationship between emotional functioning and eating styles in overweight and obese women.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Implementing a condensed dialectical behavior therapy skills group for binge-eating behaviors in adolescents.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Impact on mindfulness, emotion regulation, and emotional overeating of a DBT skills training group: a pilot study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Problematic and adaptive eating in people with obesity after a DBT-based skills training intervention: 3- and 8-month follow-up and mediation analysis.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThis pilot study aimed to analyze the effects of an adapted dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills training group on problematic and adaptive eating behaviors in Brazilian obese individuals.
methodsThirty-one obese individuals were randomly assigned to 10 sessions of adapted DBT skills training (n = 14) or two months of a waiting list comparison condition (n = 17).
resultsAttrition rates were similar to what's been found in comparable studies, with most dropouts happening at the beginning of the treatment. Results showed improvements in binge eating severity (d = 0.80) and depression (d = 0.82) compared to no treatment condition. After the intervention, adaptive eating and distress outcomes showed an improvement trend, reaching nonclinical levels for most participants in the intervention group. Large to moderate between-group effect sizes were observed, but none of those were statistically significant. Large within-group effect sizes were observed in the intervention group in binge eating severity (d = 1.34), intuitive eating (d = 1.33) and depression (d = 1.12). Medium effect sizes were observed in emotional eating (d = 0.73) and in emotion regulation (d = 0.72). Despite positive outcomes in other variables, mindful eating worsened after the intervention (d = 0.66).
conclusionsThese results are preliminary and require further replications with larger samples, yet they suggest that the intervention may be useful to improve distress outcomes and adaptive eating among obese people. Implications for clinical practice and recommendations for future research are discussed. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, randomized controlled trial.
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