Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr Giuseppe Riva
ORCID ID
Contact details
Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory
Istituto Auxologico Italiano
Casella Postale 1
Verbania
28900
Italy
+39-0323-514278
auxo.psylab@auxologico.it
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
European Project IST 2000-25323
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
VEPSY-UPDATED
Study hypothesis
Not provided at time of registration.
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration.
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Not Specified
Patient information sheet
Condition
Eating disorders: anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder and obesity
Intervention
A phase III trial with parallel design that seeks to compare the effect of a Virtual Reality based treatment with two other treatments (cognitive-behavioral approach and nutritional approach) and a waiting-list group
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Not provided at time of registration.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration.
Overall trial start date
01/04/2002
Overall trial end date
30/04/2003
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Female patients
2. Diagnosis of 'Eating Disorders' (following the criteria of the Diagnostical and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, edition IV) or 'Obesity'
3. 18-50 years
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Female
Target number of participants
Not provided at time of registration.
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration.
Recruitment start date
01/04/2002
Recruitment end date
30/04/2003
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Italy
Trial participating centre
Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Laboratory
Verbania
28900
Italy
Sponsor information
Organisation
Applied Technology for Neuro-Psychology Lab, Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Istituto Scientifico San Giuseppe (Hospital)
Sponsor details
Via Cadorna 90
Piancavallo (Verbania)
Casella Postale 1 28900
Italy
+39 0323 514278
auxo.psylab@auxologico.it
Sponsor type
Not defined
Website
Funders
Funder type
Not defined
Funder name
European Project IST-2000-25323 (http://www.vepsy.com)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
1. Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16901250
2. 2013 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23759286
Publication citations
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Results
Riva G, Bacchetta M, Cesa G, Conti S, Castelnuovo G, Mantovani F, Molinari E, Is severe obesity a form of addiction? Rationale, clinical approach, and controlled clinical trial., Cyberpsychol Behav, 2006, 9, 4, 457-479, doi: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9.457.
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Results
Cesa GL, Manzoni GM, Bacchetta M, Castelnuovo G, Conti S, Gaggioli A, Mantovani F, Molinari E, Cárdenas-López G, Riva G, Virtual reality for enhancing the cognitive behavioral treatment of obesity with binge eating disorder: randomized controlled study with one-year follow-up., J. Med. Internet Res., 2013, 15, 6, e113, doi: 10.2196/jmir.2441.