Binge eating consists of ingesting very large quantities of food without the body biologically needing it.
- A new digital behavioral therapy has proven to be more effective than traditional care in treating young female students.
- Eating disorders are serious psychiatric disorders associated with high mortality, marked impairment and poor quality of life.
A new cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) developed online has proven to be effective in helping young female students fight “binge eating”, an eating disorder scientifically known as “binge eating”.
More effective than traditional treatments
Binge eating disorder is characterized by recurrent binge eating without compensatory behavior (i.e. self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, fasting, etc.) and is often associated with the practice of restrictive diets and/or activity strong physical. People who suffer from it are usually overweight or obese. Compared to anorexia and bulimia, which affect a small percentage of men (0.3% and 0.5% respectively), the prevalence of binge eating in men is 2.5%, a rate comparable to that of women (3%).
As demonstrated by a randomized clinical trial in groups, including 690 women suffering from “binge eating” and from 27 American universities, a new digital behavioral therapy has proven to be more effective than traditional care. The difference between the two types of care was clear “with respect to the decrease in the psychopathology of eating disorders, compensatory behaviors, depression and clinical impairment”, say the researchers.
95% of the first cases occur before the age of 25
“Eating disorders are serious and common psychiatric disorders on college campuses, but most of those affected do not receive treatment. This digital intervention has the potential to fill that gap” care, continue the scientists.
Eating disorders are serious psychiatric disorders associated with high mortality, marked impairment and poor quality of life. University campuses are faced with a high prevalence of these pathologies: 13.5% of female students and 3.6% of American students are affected. 95% of the first cases occur before the age of 25.
The lack of care is associated with a disease that sets in over time, with a less favorable prognosis for recovery and with a greater risk of relapse.
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