Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Obesity and Eating Behaviors

Feeding and Eating Disorders Clinical Trial

— CIO  

Official title:

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Severely Obese Patients With or Without Binge Eating Behaviors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04431284
• Other study ID #: 69HCL20_0516
• Secondary ID: 2020-A01616-33
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 16, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 16, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: January 2021
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

COVID-19 lockdown presents particular challenges for people living with obesity. Indeed during this period, the lifestyle was deeply modified: diet, activity, and sleep behaviours, home office, take care of child, social distancing... All of these modifications may have led to stress and anxiety. It has been previously demonstrated that high perceived stress levels are correlated with high preference for sweet and fat foods . In this context caution would be exercised in obese patients especially those with binge eating disorders. Indeed binge eating disorder is characterized by compulsive overeating or consuming abnormal amounts of food while feeling unable to stop and a loss of control. And one key trigger of binge eating disorder is stress and anxiety. Thus, patients with binge eating disorders may have been more sensitive to the impact of lockdown and thus urgently would require appropriated care management.

The main objective is to compare the eating behaviour between obese patients with or without binge eating disorders. The second objective is to compare the weight evolution between the two groups before and after the lockdown.

To reach these objectives, the scientific team of the CIO project proposes to contact by phone and e-mail obese patients (with or without binge eating disorders) who have been hospitalized for their obesity disease before the start of the lockdown in the Endocrinology department of the Lyon Hospital. The patients will be asked to fill in several questionnaires (using an online tool) allowing to evaluate their mood, anxiety, eating behaviour, binge eating disorders… during the lockdown. The results of these questionnaires will be compared to those collected during their hospitalisation before the lockdown.

The hypothesis is that participants suffering from binge eating disorder will have more sever eating behaviour perturbations as higher level of stress, anxiety, depressive symptoms.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 37
• Est. completion date: December 16, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: December 16, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• severely obese patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients do not experiment the full lockdown period

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Feeding and Eating Disorders

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaires
The two groups (23 patients per group) will be contacted by phone or e-mail to participate to the CIO study. Once their agreement received, each patient will be asked to complete the same set of online questionnaires : weight, HAD (Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale), BES (Binge Eating Scale), YFAS (Yale Food Addiction Scale), DEBQ (Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire), IPAQ (International physical activity questionnaire), COVID 19 questionnaire Penn State, items from the Do-It questionnaire, general questions on the lifestyle during the lockdown (custom questionnaire), COVID stress evaluation (custom questionnaire)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Centre Intégré de l'obésité de Lyon / HCL	Pierre-Bénite

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Torres SJ, Nowson CA. Relationship between stress, eating behavior, and obesity. Nutrition. 2007 Nov-Dec;23(11-12):887-94. Epub 2007 Sep 17. Review. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Comparison of the BMI (kg/m²) evolution between the two groups		Day 21
Primary	Score comparison of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire		Day 21