NCT02978105

Effects of Self-conditioning Techniques in Promoting Weight Loss in Patients With Obesity. A Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of Self-conditioning Techniques in Promoting Weight Loss in Patients With Severe Obesity. A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Turin, Italy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators hypothesized that hypnosis is an alternative technique that could be applied to help patients with obesity to lose weight. The possibility that a self-conditioning technique (self-hypnosis) added to traditional approach (diet, exercise and behavioral recommendations) will be effective in determining weight loss with respect to the traditional approach in subjects with a body mass index (BMI) between 35 and 50 kg/m2 will be studied.

Detailed description

Obesity is a serious health concern. Most lifestyle interventions fail over time; indeed, overeating often involves loss of control and compulsive behaviors. Hypnosis could increase the ability to control emotional impulses. Self-conditioning techniques borrowed from hypnosis (self-hypnosis) increase self-control and self-management of emotions. Recent hypnosis techniques with a rapid-induction phase allow the trained patients to go into self-hypnosis in a few minutes and to repeat the experience in complete autonomy, employing a short time of the day only.

Conditions

• Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	self-conditioning techniques	Self-hypnosis to increase self-control before meals and every food compulsion episode
OTHER	standard care (diet, exercise and behavioral therapy)	dietary recommendations, exercise recommendations, and behavioral recommendations

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-02-01
• Primary completion: 2017-07-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2016-11-30
• Last updated: 2018-01-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy