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Register:	German Clinical Trials Register
Last refreshed on:	8 April 2024
Main ID:	DRKS00006566
Date of registration:	10/10/2014
Prospective Registration:	No
Primary sponsor:	Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie
Public title:	Antisaccadic Training to improve food-related impulsivity
Scientific title:	Antisaccadic Training to improve food-related impulsivity
Date of first enrolment:	01/08/2014
Target sample size:	20
Recruitment status:	Recruiting
URL:	http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00006566
Study type:	interventional
Study design:	Allocation: Randomized controlled study; Masking: Blinded (masking used); Control: placebo; Assignment: parallel; Study design purpose: treatment
Phase:	N/A

Countries of recruitment
Germany

Contacts

Name:	Katrin Giel
Address:	Osianderstraße 5 72076 Tübingen Germany
Telephone:	07071/ 29-86719
Email:	katrin.giel@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Affiliation:	Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

Name:	Eva Speer
Address:	Osianderstraße 5 72076 Tübingen Germany
Telephone:	07071/86726
Email:	eva.speer@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Affiliation:	Psychosomatische medizin und Psychotherapie

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: older than 18 years
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) or subsyndromal BED
Exclusion criteria: Mental disorder (psychosis, bipolar disorder)
Substance abuse
Suicidality
Pregnancy and breatfeeding
Intake of psychotropic drugs (exception antidepressants: SSRI, SNRI, TZA)
Current psychotherapy to improve BED
Current program to lose weight, current diet, or other tries to reduce weight

Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 55 Years
Gender: Female

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

F50.8

Other eating disorders

Intervention(s)

Group 1: Antisaccadic training: participants have to look in the opposite direction to the presented (high caloric food trail) trail (right or left, inbetween fixationcross), four times in 2 weeks (3 times over 4 minutes, 40 trails)
Group 2: no training: the task is to let the eyes wandering, everthing else is identic to the experimental group, 4 times in 2 weeks

Primary Outcome(s)

food related impulsivity: binge eating is examined by Eating-Disorder-Examination_questionnaire (EDE-Q) basline and after 6 weeks (phone appointment), food Craving is examined by Food Cravings Questionnaire (FCQ) baseline and after 2 weeks, the food trails are examined by the concept of Wanting and Liking baseline and after 2 weeks

proof of concept: experience with recruting/dropouts and evaluation of the training by the participants

Secondary Outcome(s)

General eating pathology (EDE-Q) and
General impulsivity (Barrat Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-15) and questionnaire of Behavioural Inhibition/Activation System (BIS/BAS)) are examined at the first appointment (baseline).
The analysis of eyemovment is tested exploratory over the whole training.

Secondary ID(s)

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 13/01/2014
Contact:

Results

Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
URL:	http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00006566#studyResults

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