Change in eating-disorder psychopathology network structure in patients with binge-eating disorder: Findings from treatment trial with 12-month follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Effective treatments exist for binge-eating disorder (BED), although roughly 50% of patients fail to attain binge-eating abstinence. Evidence on how to refine treatments is lacking. Conceptualizing BED as arising from a network of symptom-to-symptom interactions allows for the identification of the most strongly connected symptoms, which could inform intervention targets. This study assessed how BED symptom centrality changed with behaviorally based weight-loss treatments (BBWLTs).

Methods

Participants were 191 adult patients (71% female, 79% White) with BED with comorbid obesity participating in a randomized controlled trial testing 6-month BBWLTs for BED. Independent assessments of BED symptoms were performed at pretreatment, posttreatment, and 12 months after tr

SUBMITTER: Forrest LN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9247034 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature