The experience of control of eating during TMR for T2DM
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The experience of control of eating during a total meal replacement programme for remission of type 2 diabetes.
IRAS ID
310057
Contact name
Chinar Arkuter-McKee
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Leeds
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
n/a, n/a
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 4 days
Research summary
Weight management programmes have been shown to be effective for type 2 diabetes remission (T2DM). Several factors may contribute to control of eating in people living with obesity: hunger and appetite; dietary restraint, and psychosocial factors, which can contribute to disordered eating.
In 2019 Diabetes UK identified eating disorders, particularly binge eating in those with Type 2 diabetes and obesity as a priority area. It is estimated 30% prevalence of binge eating in people accessing weight management programmes. Studies to date have not explored the experience of eating, despite eating difficulties correlating with weight gain and weight loss during weight management programmes.
This study is nested within an existing intervention (Leeds Diabetes Remission Programme) and will recruit participants participating in a total meal replacement programme for the remission of T2DM to explore the subjective experience of control of eating. This study will focus on key time points whereby participants may be vulnerable to experience variations in control of eating, the first phase of the programme (total meal replacement) to the second phase of food reintroduction, which are periods of behavioural adaptation to diet and eating. We will look at changes in scores between the two time points which may be vulnerable periods within the total meal replacement programme using daily monitoring diaries.
Participants will be asked to consider their experience of control of eating ‘in comparison to how they usually felt before they started on the programme’: providing an retrospective, internalised anchor of control of eating from participants in which to determine change over the course of time. Routinely collected outcome measures from the Leeds Diabetes Remission programme will be used as secondary outcome measures to explore if factors such as weight changes and psychosocial factors contribute to changes in subjective experience of control of eating during the intervention.
REC name
London - Queen Square Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
22/PR/1187
Date of REC Opinion
21 Oct 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion