Trial reportObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2021
Randomized Controlled Trial of Treatments for Loss-of-Control Eating Following Bariatric Surgery.
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- Understanding the Components of Eating Behaviour-Focused Weight Management Interventions Adjunct to Metabolic Bariatric Surgery: Systematic Review of Published Literature.Current obesity reports · 2025Pooled it
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- Racial differences after bariatric surgery: 24-month follow-up of a randomized, controlled trial for postoperative loss-of-control eating.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2024Trial
- Predictors of early weight loss in post-bariatric surgery patients receiving adjunctive behavioural treatments for loss-of-control eating.Clinical obesity · 2023Trial
- 24-Month follow-up of randomized controlled trial of guided-self-help for loss-of-control eating after bariatric surgery.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Trial
- Eating Disorders in the Context of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Current Status and Future Directions.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Shape discrepancy, weight bias internalization, and eating-disorder psychopathology in patients with loss-of-control eating after bariatric surgery.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2024Article
- Real-time versus retrospective self-report assessment of loss-of-control eating in adults undergoing bariatric surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Covariates of a healthy diet and physical activity self-management one year after Bariatric surgery: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Ethnic and racial comparisons of weight-loss treatment utilization history and outcomes in patients with obesity and binge-eating disorder.Eating behaviors · 2022Article
- Behavioral Interventions to Attenuate Driven Overeating and Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- Psychiatric comorbidity as a prospective predictor of long-term weight and psychosocial outcomes after bariatric surgery.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
objectiveLoss-of-control (LOC) eating postoperatively is a consistent predictor of suboptimal longer-term bariatric surgery outcomes. This randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of two guided self-help treatments (cognitive behavioral therapy [gshCBT] and behavioral weight loss [gshBWL]) compared with a control (CON) for reducing LOC eating and weight.
methodsA total of 140 patients with recurrent LOC eating approximately 6 months after bariatric surgery were randomly assigned (5:5:2 ratio) to one of three conditions: gshCBT (n = 56), gshBWL (n = 60), or CON (n = 24). Three-month treatments were delivered by trained allied health clinicians to increase generalizability to bariatric surgery settings. Independent assessments were performed by doctoral research-clinicians using established interviews/measures; posttreatment outcomes were obtained for 89% of patients.
resultsMixed models revealed significant improvements for LOC eating frequency and weight loss but no significant differences between treatments; race neither predicted (main effect) nor moderated (interaction effect) treatment outcomes. Intent-to-treat categorical analyses of abstinence from LOC eating (30% for gshCBT, 27% for gshBWL, 38% for CON) and proportion attaining 5% weight loss (20%, 22%, 17%) revealed no significant differences between treatments; non-White participants had a higher proportion achieving LOC eating abstinence but a lower proportion attaining 5% weight loss compared with White participants.
conclusionsIn this 12-week randomized controlled trial following bariatric surgery, significant LOC eating reductions and weight loss did not differ significantly between treatments. Race was associated with posttreatment categorical outcomes.
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