Barlow's unIfied Protocol for emoTional Eating (BITE): a Pre-post Design

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of a group intervention program, based on the Barlow's protocol, in patients with emotional eating with the aim of improving the emotional eating pattern.The design is quasi-experimental pre-post with a control group (waiting list) and evaluation of the maintenance of the response after 6 months of the end of the program.Includes outpatients from the Eating Disorders Unit and the Psychiatry Unit of a Hospital. A sample size of 26 participants is considered in the experimental group, and another 26 more in the control group.

Inclusion Criteria:Outpatients from eating behavior disorder outpatient clinics and psychiatric outpatient clinics.Age between 18 and 65 years.Score of more than 2.46 on the "emotional eating" subscale of the DEBQ scaleExclusion Criteria:Diagnosis of active Eating Disorder, that is, without at least 6 months of symptomatic remission or that exceed the cut-off point on the EAT-26 scale.Patients with severe mental disorder with or without psychotic symptoms (schizophreniform disorders, bipolar spectrum disorders, major depression)Patients with some other medical disorder that presents with impulse dysregulation, such as epilepsy, frontal-type dementia...Patients with an IQ < 85Patients who do not give consent.Patients who do not understand or speak Spanish or Catalan.