The Motivated Cognition Lab is recruiting participants for a study “what is it like” to crave in the context of compulsive overeating.
Do you experience binge eating? Share your experiences in a study!
Study description
This study is about investigating “what it is like” to crave and feel out of control around food, focusing on those attentional processes and emotions that are likely to generate and motivate compulsive overeating.
The participation involves keeping a diary using a journaling app for one week. At the end of the week, there will be an interview session to further explore the experiences.
Research team
Dr. Rebecca Todd (Principal Investigator; Motivated Cognition Lab, UBC Psychology)
Laura Bickel (Graduate Student Investigator, UBC Philosophy)
Eligibility requirements
Tto take part in the study, you must meet the following criteria:
- Must be over 19 years of age
- Must be fluent in English
- Must be located in Metro Vancouver
- Must have the journaling app installed on your mobile phone and/or laptop and commit to using it at least three times a day
- Must be comfortable with being voice recorded during interview sessions
- Must be willing to share your diary notes
- Must be able to commit approximately 4 hours for a week and a 45-minutes pre-study meeting.
- Additionally, you must either have an official diagnosis of binge eating disorder or meet the criteria for it based on the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview, which will be conducted during the pre-study meeting to confirm your eligibility.
- You must experience at least one binge eating episode per week. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
- Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely as larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances.
- The sense of lack of control overeating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).
Location of study
On campus, at participant’s home or in the field.
Compensation
Participants will receive a gift card (28$) for one yoga session at YYoga or for the book store Indigo.
Note: Participants can only receive one of the two.
Sign up today!
Email Laura Bickel at Ibickel@mail.ubc.ca