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

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of therapeutic diet combined with exercise and its combined effect with the group emotion focused therapy on night eating syndrome. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design and a control group with two-month follow-up. The statistical population of the study included all obese people suffering from overeating who referred to the obesity clinic of Sina Hospital in Tehran in 1401. The sample size of the research included 51 people (17 people in each group) who were selected by available sampling method. The research tool included night eating Questionnaire (NEQ). The control group did not receive any intervention, but both research experimental groups received diet therapy intervention with exercise during 12 sessions, and one of the experimental groups received 10 sessions of approximately 2 hours of emotion-focused therapy. Mixed variance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the therapeutic diet group combined with exercise combined with emotion-focused therapy has a significant effect on night eating syndrome (P<0.05). Also, the results showed that the therapeutic diet combined with exercise has no significant effect on night eating syndrome (P<0.05). The results showed that the therapeutic regimen combined with exercise in combination with the emotion-focused therapy is probably a more efficient treatment compared to the therapeutic diet combined with exercise for the treatment of night eating syndrome in obese people with binge eating disorder.