Active clinical trials for "Feeding and Eating Disorders"

This study will determine the effectiveness of guided self-help treatment in treating individuals with binge eating disorder (BED).

The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy of a CD-ROM-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to traditional manual-based group therapy for obese individuals with binge-eating disorder (BED) and other unhealthy eating behaviors. A second goal is to encourage a healthy lifestyle in patients with BED.

The objectives of this proposed study are: 1) to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of a novel intervention, Regulation of Cues (ROC), and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and 2) to evaluate the efficacy of both treatments on reduction of binge eating and weight loss among 120 Veterans with subclinical or clinical Binge Eating Disorder (BED) with comorbid overweight/obesity (OW/OB).

Many children with feeding disorders frequently gag, vomit, spit out their food, and/or hold food in their cheeks. These behaviors make it difficult for children to eat enough food to grow. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if a specific behavioral feeding intervention called desensitization is an effective intervention to improve oral intake in children with feeding disorders by decreasing gagging, vomiting, spitting, and holding food in the cheeks. The study will enroll eligible children (6) and their caretakers (6) in the study and they will receive behavioral feeding treatment. All treatment sessions will be videotaped and the study will last a maximum 8 weeks after the first treatment visit, or until treatment goals have been met.

This research project aims to explore the effectiveness of combined go/no-go training and implementation intentions in targeting binge eating frequency among people with binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. The full intervention is 4 weeks long and consists of completing the training and food diaries every day and meeting with the researcher twice for EEG recording. Moreover, it involves completing questionnaires at baseline, at intervention completion, and one month after the intervention. Moreover, healthy control participants will be recruitment to complete baseline questionnaires and take part in one EEG recording session in order to assess baseline differences in brain activation in response to computer tasks.

A study to evaluate a drug (dasotraline) on the safety, effectiveness and how well the body tolerates it, in adults with moderate to severe binge eating disorder

Preterm infants with gestational age inferior to 34 weeks were included in the study. A prospective experimental group received the oral stimulation protocol and the effects of the intervention were compared with a historical control group that did not receive any oral stimulation intervention. The study hypothesis is that oral stimulation in preterm infants has beneficial effects on the feeding performance, the length of hospitalization and anthropometric variables, including weight at discharge, height at discharge and head circumference at discharge.

Although psychotherapy for eating disorders (EDs) can be effective, approximately 50% of those who complete a course of the best available therapy continue to have significant ED symptoms at the end of treatment. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) commonly co-occurs with EDs and is thought to be one reason why some individuals do not remit from their ED with best available treatment or relapse following treatment. In particular, ED behaviours can function as coping methods for PTSD symptoms, and thus interfere with successful and lasting ED recovery. The main objective of this initial treatment trial is to determine whether a concurrent treatment approach, in which PTSD symptoms are treated at the same time as ED symptoms, provides an advantage over standard ED treatment by successfully alleviating PTSD symptoms. Forty participants who have both an ED and PTSD will be assigned to receive either (1) standard ED psychotherapy alone or (2) standard ED psychotherapy concurrent with PTSD psychotherapy. After treatment, participants will be followed for a period of 6 months to determine whether improvements made during therapy are maintained after treatment. ED and PTSD symptoms, as well as concomitant symptoms (e.g., anxiety and depression) will be assessed immediately before and after treatment, as well as 3 and 6 months after treatment.

The effectiveness of a systematic affect regulation training (ART; Berking, 2010) is evaluated with regard to reducing symptoms of binge eating disoder in a randomized controlled trial.

Young females with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is at high risk of eating disorders (ED), with prevalence rates of ED more than double those of non-diabetes peers. T1D and ED are both associated with serious somatic complications, and when occurring together the prognosis is even worse. Despite the frequency and severity of this comorbidity, there is a lack of intervention studies and no consensus on how to best prevent and treat this comorbidity. To remedy this, we have developed a virtual diabetes-adapted version of the ED prevention program Body Project, i.e. the Diabetes Body Project. This study examines the effectiveness of the Diabetes Body Project to reduce ED risk factors and symptoms among young females with T1D.