Episodic future thinking in type 2 diabetes: Further development and validation of the Health Information Thinking control for clinical trials.

ABSTRACT: Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) reduces delay discounting and may have the potential as a clinical tool to increase the likelihood of health-promoting behaviors. However, evaluations of EFT in clinical settings require control conditions that match the effort and frequency of cue generation, as well as participants' expectations of improvement. The Health Information Thinking (HIT) control addresses these issues, but how this control affects delay discounting in individuals with diabetes and obesity when utilizing diabetes-management specific health-information vignettes is unknown. Moreover, little research has explored whether EFT reduces delay discounting in individuals with type 2 diabetes. To this end, we examined the impact of EFT, HIT, and a secondary no-cue control condition (NCC; a

SUBMITTER: Brown JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10399790 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature