Comparing the effectiveness of therapeutic diet combined with exercise and its combined effect with the group emotion focused therapy on impulse control of obese people with binge eating disorder

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of diet combined with exercise and its combined effect with the group emotion-focused therapy on impulse control of obese people with binge eating disorder. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with a two-month follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all obese people suffering from overeating who were referred to the obesity clinic of Sina Hospital in Tehran in 1401. The sample size included 51 people (17 people in each group) selected by available sampling method. The research tool included the Impulsivity Questionnaire (BIQ) by Barrett (1995). The control group did not receive any intervention, but both research experimental groups received a diet combined with exercise during 12 sessions, and one of the experimental groups received 10 sessions of approximately 2 hours of emotion-focused therapy. A mixed variance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the difference between the pre-test and post-test and follow-up of diet combined with exercise in combination with emotion-focused therapy in impulse control (cognitive and lack of planning) is significant (P<0.05), but the difference between the pre-test, post-test, and follow-up of the diet therapy group with exercise was not significant in impulse control components (P>0.05). Results showed that emotion-focused therapy is probably a more efficient treatment compared to the diet combined with exercise for the treatment of impulse control in obese people with binge eating disorders.