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Trial reportEuropean eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association2021

BED-online: Acceptance and efficacy of an internet-based treatment for binge-eating disorder: A randomized clinical trial including waitlist conditions.

Andrea Wyssen, Andrea H Meyer, Nadine Messerli-Bürgy, Felicitas Forrer, Pierre Vanhulst, Denis Lalanne, Simone Munsch

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7 authors.

Andrea WyssenDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Andrea H MeyerDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Nadine Messerli-BürgyDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Child Psychology & Biological Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Felicitas ForrerDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Pierre VanhulstDepartment of Informatics, Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Denis LalanneDepartment of Informatics, Human-IST Institute, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Simone MunschDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveInternet-based guided self-help (GSH) programs increase accessibility and utilization of evidence-based treatments in binge-eating disorder (BED). We evaluated acceptance and short as well as long-term efficacy of our 8-session internet-based GSH program in a randomized clinical trial with an immediate treatment group, and two waitlist control groups, which differed with respect to whether patients received positive expectation induction during waiting or not.

methodSixty-three patients (87% female, mean age 37.2 years) followed the eight-session guided cognitive-behavioural internet-based program and three booster sessions in a randomized clinical trial design including an immediate treatment and two waitlist control conditions. Outcomes were treatment acceptance, number of weekly binge-eating episodes, eating disorder pathology, depressiveness, and level of psychosocial functioning.

resultsTreatment satisfaction was high, even though 27% of all patients dropped out during the active treatment and 9.5% during the follow-up period of 6 months. The treatment, in contrast to the waiting conditions, led to a significant reduction of weekly binge-eating episodes from 3.4 to 1.7 with no apparent rebound effect during follow-up. All other outcomes improved as well during active treatment. Email-based positive expectation induction during waiting period prior to the treatment did not have an additional beneficial effect on the temporal course and thus treatment success, of binge episodes in this study.

conclusionThis short internet-based program was clearly accepted and highly effective regarding core features of BED. Dropout rates were higher in the active and lower in the follow-up period. Positive expectations did not have an impact on treatment effects.

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Binge-Eating DisorderCognitive Behavioral TherapyAdultFemaleHumansInternetMaleTreatment Outcomebinge-eating disordercognitive-behavioural therapyefficacyguided self-helpinternet-based treatment

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PMID34418221
PMCPMC9292199

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