Food Addiction Screening Tool: FAST intervention - A Feasibility RCT

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    A Feasibility and Acceptability study with Randomised Controlled Trial, to explore Delivery of a Brief Intervention – Food Addiction Screening Tool (FAST) to Address ‘Food addiction’ in Patients Living with Obesity (PLWO) who access Dietetic Services

  • IRAS ID

    304739

  • Contact name

    Deborah Lycett

  • Contact email

    ab5042@coventry.ac.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    Coventry University

  • ISRCTN Number

    ISRCTN12138612

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    1 years, 7 months, 30 days

  • Research summary

    This study is trying to find out if it is possible and practical to identify food addiction during a routine appointment with a dietitian.
    From the research evidence, we know that some people living with obesity consider themselves to be addicted to food.
    Our team would like to find out if we can ask patients about food addiction and then signpost them to a support group specifically to help with food addiction. We want to test this through a small randomised controlled trial, which will hopefully tell us if it is worth completing a bigger trial.

  • REC name

    East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee

  • REC reference

    22/EM/0128

  • Date of REC Opinion

    26 Sep 2022

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion