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Behavioral Intervention

16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program for Food Addiction (FACT Trial)

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Shenelle Edwards-Hampton, PhD
Research Sponsored by Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
Be older than 18 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up pre 16-week intervention
Awards & highlights

FACT Trial Summary

This trial will help researchers understand if a new treatment program for obesity-related eating disorders and substance use disorders is effective.

Eligible Conditions
  • Food Addiction
  • Compulsive Eating

FACT Trial Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~pre 16-week intervention
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and pre 16-week intervention for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary outcome measures
Walk Test
Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT)
Barratt's Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11), Inhibitory Control subscale
+19 more
Secondary outcome measures
Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) Excluding the restraint subscale
Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale (EDDS) Restraint Subscale
Eating Disorder Examination - Questionnaire Short (EDE-QS)

FACT Trial Design

1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: 16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) ProgramExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program, first session will be 120 mins, all subsequent sessions will be 90 mins. Treatment will be led, at a minimum, by a full licensed psychologist
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
16-week Food Addiction Clinical Treatment (FACT) Program
2023
N/A
~10

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Wake Forest University Health SciencesLead Sponsor
1,239 Previous Clinical Trials
1,004,181 Total Patients Enrolled
Shenelle Edwards-Hampton, PhDPrincipal InvestigatorWake Forest Health Sciences

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are there any vacant openings in the research project for participants?

"Clinicaltrials.gov reveals that this trial is no longer actively recruiting patients, having been initially published on February 1st 2023 and last updated on October 31st 2022. However, there are presently 62 other medical studies in need of participants."

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Who else is applying?

What site did they apply to?
Wake Forest Health Sciences
What portion of applicants met pre-screening criteria?
Met criteria
~1 spots leftby Apr 2025