Dialectical Behavioral Therapy As A Therapeutic Tool In Patients With Binge Eating Disorder
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-12-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
Binge eating disorder (BED) is one of the recently acknowledged eating disorders, with many
theories underlying its pathology whether biological or psychological. From the biological
perspective, changes in plasma ghrelin were hypothesized to have a major role in developing
and maintaining the disorder, while from the psychopathological perspectives, abnormalities
in emotion regulation were found in many patients.
Since Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is known to target emotion dysregulation, the main
aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of DBT versus treatment as usual (TAU) in BED
patients, and whether plasma ghrelin level will be affected after treatment in both arms.