Managing Our Relationship With Food & Eating

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

There is a need for population-level intervention research to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on disordered eating and unhealthy eating behaviours. Systematic reviews have demonstrated that psychotherapy and yoga can help to reduce binge eating and disordered eating habits, however, these interventions were tested in person. Studies examining the effectiveness of these interventions in an online, group-based format are warranted. In 2019, the investigators launched a RCT to test gender-stratified group interventions to address mental health and addictive behaviours among community-based adults in southern Alberta. The investigators implemented this intervention with more than 200 adults in person before this study was paused due to COVID-19; In 2020, the investigators adapted this intervention for online delivery to 200 community-dwelling women across Alberta. The most recent iteration of this study indicated the participants were particularly concerned about their relationship with food and how they were engaging in different eating behaviours to cope with the stress of COVID-19.

Clinical Trial Description

The primary objective of this project is to adapt two existing mental health and substance use interventions and RCT for online delivery to address unhealthy eating behaviours and a negative relationship with food for women within the context of COVID-19. The second objective is to test if an online group body-oriented intervention (trauma-sensitive yoga) that has been designed to increase awareness of physical sensations, is superior to an online group verbal narrative intervention (mental wellness talking circle), and to control group. The investigators theorize that the body-oriented intervention may offer the opportunity to reprogram automatic physiologic hyperarousal in response to COVID-19 triggers and increase positive body awareness, and mindful attention to the ways in which habitual self-protective behaviours, like unhealthy eating behaviours, may be impacting health. The third objective is to examine the impacts of the interventions on adults with pre-existing mental health and disordered eating issues, and those with previous experiences that may make them more susceptible to these problems during COVID-19. The investigators will track other supports they engage in during the study and the perceived impacts of these supports on their outcomes with the goal of shedding light on how to best match COVID-19 related services to adults who need them the most. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04797689
Study type	Interventional
Source	University of Lethbridge
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	April 1, 2021
Completion date	July 22, 2021

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