NCT02055391

A Weight Loss Trial for Emotional Eating

A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Weight Loss Intervention for Obesity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 79 (actual)
• Sponsor: Temple University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a new weight loss treatment which incorporates behavioral weight loss skills and skills for learning how to identify, manage, and cope with emotions helps with weight loss and emotional eating in people who are overweight and eat in response to emotions.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Weight Loss	Weekly group meetings addressing behavioral weight loss skills including calorie counting, exercise, behavior modification, environmental changes, and coping with triggers.
BEHAVIORAL	Enhanced Behavioral Weight Loss	Weekly group meetings that combine behavioral weight loss skills (calorie counting, exercise, behavior modification, environmental changes) with skills to decrease emotional eating by learning ways to manage and cope with emotions without eating.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2014-02-05
• Last updated: 2014-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States