NCT03917901

Computer-Delivered Intervention for Individuals With Obesity and Elevated Anxiety Sensitivity

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 131 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed study will design and evaluate a computerized-delivered single-session anxiety sensitivity reduction program (i.e., Anxiety Sensitivity Training; AST). The AST will be designed to achieve three primary aims: (1) provide psycho-educational information on AS and its consequences, (2) present psycho-educational information on the relationship between AS and obesity-related health behavior correlates, and (3) offer concrete, evidence-based strategies to facilitate motivation to change their obesity-related lifestyle behaviors.

Detailed description

The primary goal of the research study is to investigate the efficacy of a brief, computer-delivered transdiagnostic intervention that addresses anxiety sensitivity to reduce emotional eating, eating expectancies, food cravings, binge eating, perceived barriers to engage in physical activity, anxiety/depressive symptoms, severity of daily fatigue and increase perceived benefits to engage in physical activity, exercise self-efficacy, willingness to use adaptive coping strategies, and perceived physical health functioning. To address this aim, the investigator's will implement a randomized controlled trial that will employ a longitudinal experimental design and involve five stages: (a) online pre-screener; (b) baseline survey consisting of a pre-intervention assessment (eligibility) and random assignment to a one-session computer-delivered intervention (Active versus Control); (c) 1-week follow-up survey; (d) 2-week follow-up survey; (e) 1-month follow-up survey.

Conditions

• Obesity
• Anxiety Sensitivity
• Eating
• Physical Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Anxiety Sensitivity Training	Computerized Single-Session Anxiety Sensitivity Reduction Program
OTHER	Health Control	Computerized Single-Session Health Information Control

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-16
• Primary completion: 2021-03-06
• Completion: 2021-03-06
• First posted: 2019-04-17
• Last updated: 2024-08-26
• Results posted: 2024-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States