ArticlePsychosomatic medicine2020
Does Episodic Future Thinking Repair Immediacy Bias at Home and in the Laboratory in Patients With Prediabetes?
Article in Psychosomatic medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03664726 (Delay Discounting as a Target for Self-Regulation in Prediabetes), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.
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Delay Discounting as a Target for Self-Regulation in Prediabetes
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Effects of 6-month episodic future thinking training on delay discounting, weight loss and HbA1c changes in individuals with prediabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Putting prospection into practice: Methodological considerations in the use of episodic future thinking to reduce delay discounting and maladaptive health behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Imagine to Remember: An Episodic Future Thinking Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.Patient preference and adherence · 2022Article
- Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in adults.Learning and motivation · 2021Article
- Choice bundling, unpacked: Observed and predicted effects on intertemporal choice in an additive model of hyperbolic delay discounting.PloS one · 2021Article
- Perceptions and effectiveness of episodic future thinking as digital micro-interventions based on mobile health technology.Digital healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to determine if episodic future thinking (EFT) can decrease delay discounting (DD) among adults with prediabetes both in and out of the laboratory. DD measures how much the value of a reinforcer decreases as a function of the delay to receive it.
methodsAdults with prediabetes (n = 67) completed a three-session study. At session 1, baseline measures (including DD) were collected. At sessions 2 and 3, participants were prompted to engage in either EFT or control episodic thinking (CET) while completing DD and other measures. In addition, between the completion of sessions 2 and 3, participants engaged in EFT or CET at home and completed DD tasks remotely via smartphones or other Internet-connected devices.
resultsResults showed significant -1.2759 (-20.24%) reductions in DD in the EFT group compared with a + 0.0287 (+0.46%) DD increase in the CET group (p = .0149) in the laboratory; and -0.4095 (-8.85%) reduction in DD in the EFT group compared with a + 0.2619 (+5.64%) increase in the CET group (p = .011) at home. Working memory (measured by Backwards Corsi and Digit Span) was found to moderate the effects of EFT on some measures of DD. EFT did not change measures from the food purchase task or a food ad libitum procedure.
conclusionsResults show that EFT decreases DD in and out of the laboratory and supports the further exploration of EFT as an intervention for prediabetes and related chronic diseases. CLINICAL
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