O estudo teve por objetivo avaliar o uso de álcool no padrão binge em usuários de drogas. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, exploratório, da abordagem quantitativa, desenvolvido em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - Álcool e Drogas. A amostra foi composta por 140 usuários de drogas em tratamento. Constituíram instrumentos para coleta de dados: informações sociodemográficas, Escala de Gravidade de Dependência do Álcool (SADD), AUDIT-C, Escala de Severidade de Dependência de Drogas (SDS), Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief) e The Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC). A amostra caracterizou-se predominantemente por adultos do sexo masculino, solteiros, cor negra/parda, com baixo nível de escolaridade, que professavam a religião católica. A maioria dos participantes fez uso de bebida alcoólica no padrão binge e nível severo de dependência alcoólica e de drogas. Na presente amostra não foram verificadas associações entre o consumo no padrão binge e situações de violências. Os usuários também apresentaram consequências mais graves nos aspectos físicos, interpessoais, intrapessoal, controle de impulso e responsabilidade social avaliadas pela escala DrInC. O uso pesado de álcool tem sido uma prática muito comum entre usuários de cocaína e crack, o que representa graves riscos para a saúde física e social dessas pessoas. Os resultados indicam a necessidade de estratégias interventivas para controle do uso de álcool nessa população / The study aimed to evaluate the binge-drinking among drugs users. It is a cross-sectional study of a quantitative approach. The study was developed in a Psychosocial Attention Center - Alcohol and drugs. The sample was composed of 140 drug users in treatment. The tools of data collection were: sociodemographic information, Short Alcohol Dependence Data (SADD), The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C), Severity Dependence Scale (SDS), Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief) and Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC). The sample was characterized predominantly by being adults, males, singles, black / brown color, with low education level, who professed the Catholic religion. Most participants made the use of alcohol in binge-drinking and severe levels of alcoholism and addiction. In the present sample was not identified associations between the binge- drinking and violence situations. Users also present more serious consequences in the physical, interpersonal, intrapersonal aspects, impulse control and social responsibility evaluated by DrInC scale. Heavy use of alcohol has been a very common practice for cocaine and crack users, which represents serious risks to physical and social health of these users. The results indicate the need for intervention strategies of alcohol use control with this population

Objective: For eating disorders, a vast number of investigations have demonstrated the efficacy of psychological treatments. However, evidence supporting the impact of therapeutic process aspects on outcome (i.e., process-outcome research) has not been disentangled. Method: Using the Generic Model of Psychotherapy (GMP) to organize various process aspects, a systematic literature search was conducted on psychological treatment studies for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and eating disorders not otherwise specified. Results: Improved outcomes resulted for family-based treatment compared to individual treatment, for individual compared to group treatment, booster sessions, and positive patient expectations (GMP contract aspect); for nutritional counseling and exercising but not exposure with response prevention as adjunct interventions (therapeutic operations); for highly motivated patients and, to a lesser extent, for therapeutic alliance (therapeutic bond); as well as for rapid response and longer overall treatment duration (temporal patterns). Regarding other GMP aspects, studies on self-relatedness were completely lacking and in-session impacts were rarely investigated. Discussion: As most studies assessed only a limited number of process aspects, the ability to draw conclusions about their overall impact regarding outcome is rather limited. Therefore, future process-outcome research is needed beyond investigations of treatment efficacy for eating disorders.

While cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most well-established treatment for binge-eating disorder (BED), little is known about process factors influencing its outcome. The present study sought to explore the assessment of therapist adherence, its course over treatment, and its associations with patient and therapist characteristics, and the therapeutic alliance. In a prospective multicenter randomized-controlled trial comparing CBT to internet-based guided self-help (INTERBED-study), therapist adherence using the newly developed Adherence Control Form (ACF) was determined by trained raters in randomly selected 418 audio-taped CBT sessions of 89 patients (25% of all sessions). Observer-rated therapeutic alliance, interview-based and self-reported patient and therapist characteristics were assessed. Three-level multilevel modeling was applied. The ACF showed adequate psychometric properties. Therapist adherence was excellent. While significant between-therapist variability in therapist adherence was found, within-therapist variability was non-significant. Patient and therapist characteristics did not predict the therapist adherence. The therapist adherence positively predicted the therapeutic alliance. The ACF demonstrated its utility to assess therapist adherence in CBT for BED. The excellent levels of therapist adherence point to the internal validity of the CBT within the INTERBED-study serving as a prerequisite for empirical comparisons between treatments. Variability between therapists should be addressed in therapist trainings and dissemination trials.

O estudo teve por objetivo avaliar o uso de álcool no padrão binge em usuários de drogas. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, exploratório, da abordagem quantitativa, desenvolvido em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial - Álcool e Drogas. A amostra foi composta por 140 usuários de drogas em tratamento. Constituíram instrumentos para coleta de dados: informações sociodemográficas, Escala de Gravidade de Dependência do Álcool (SADD), AUDIT-C, Escala de Severidade de Dependência de Drogas (SDS), Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief) e The Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC). A amostra caracterizou-se predominantemente por adultos do sexo masculino, solteiros, cor negra/parda, com baixo nível de escolaridade, que professavam a religião católica. A maioria dos participantes fez uso de bebida alcoólica no padrão binge e nível severo de dependência alcoólica e de drogas. Na presente amostra não foram verificadas associações entre o consumo no padrão binge e situações de violências. Os usuários também apresentaram consequências mais graves nos aspectos físicos, interpessoais, intrapessoal, controle de impulso e responsabilidade social avaliadas pela escala DrInC. O uso pesado de álcool tem sido uma prática muito comum entre usuários de cocaína e crack, o que representa graves riscos para a saúde física e social dessas pessoas. Os resultados indicam a necessidade de estratégias interventivas para controle do uso de álcool nessa população / The study aimed to evaluate the binge-drinking among drugs users. It is a cross-sectional study of a quantitative approach. The study was developed in a Psychosocial Attention Center - Alcohol and drugs. The sample was composed of 140 drug users in treatment. The tools of data collection were: sociodemographic information, Short Alcohol Dependence Data (SADD), The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C), Severity Dependence Scale (SDS), Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief) and Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC). The sample was characterized predominantly by being adults, males, singles, black / brown color, with low education level, who professed the Catholic religion. Most participants made the use of alcohol in binge-drinking and severe levels of alcoholism and addiction. In the present sample was not identified associations between the binge- drinking and violence situations. Users also present more serious consequences in the physical, interpersonal, intrapersonal aspects, impulse control and social responsibility evaluated by DrInC scale. Heavy use of alcohol has been a very common practice for cocaine and crack users, which represents serious risks to physical and social health of these users. The results indicate the need for intervention strategies of alcohol use control with this population

Cette thèse porte sur la forte alcoolisation ponctuelle des étudiantes irlandaises. Il s’agit en premier lieu de comprendre la progression récente de cette pratique en l’envisageant à partir d’échelles différentes : une perspective à la fois « macro » et comparative à l’aide d’une revue de littérature et une autre « micro », grâce à une recherche empirique qualitative. Celle-ci a été menée à partir de 40 entretiens individuels semi-directifs avec des étudiantes d’un même établissement. L’analyse de leurs perceptions quant à leurs pratiques, leurs prises de risque associées, leurs motivations et des facteurs socio-culturels facilitera l’élaboration de futurs programmes de prévention. Une philosophie de recherche de type écologique a été adoptée, suivant le principe que seule une approche multidisciplinaire permettrait une compréhension globale de ce fait social. Parmi les principaux résultats, nous retenons que la majorité des participantes irlandaises pratiquent le « binge drinking » de façon hebdomadaire. Ceci constitue un obstacle à leur socialisation avec celles d’origine étrangère qui, elles, ne s’y adonnent pas. Le « boire irlandais », en tant que revendication identitaire nationale, s’est en fait utilisé que comme prétexte par des étudiantes qui souhaitent avant tout reculer les échéances de la vie adulte en se cantonnant dans une « post-adolescence ». De plus, cette forme d’alcoolisation correspond moins à une quête d’égalité avec les garçons qu’à un désir de faciliter les rapports de séduction. Enfin, en buvant ainsi, elles cherchent davantage à s’affirmer comme jeunes que comme femmes ou Irlandaises. / This thesis focuses on the heavy episodic alcohol consumption of Irish female students. Firstly, it aims to understand the recent increase of this type of drinking by considering it from different perspectives. A macro and comparative analysis was provided by the literature review as well as a micro one through a qualitative research. Semi-guided individual interviews of 40 female students from the same third-level educational establishment were conducted. A research philosophy of an ecological nature was selected, following the principle that only a multi-disciplinary approach could provide an overall understanding of such a social fact. The key findings reveal that the majority of participants “binge drink » on average twice weekly. This represents an obstacle to their socialisation with female students from foreign origins, who tend not to drink heavily when they socialise. The “Irish drinking”, as a celebration of a national identity, is being used by many participants as an excuse. They try, in fact, to postpone as long as possible, adult roles and responsibilities by shutting themselves away in a “post-adolescence” period. Furthermore, for them, this type of alcohol consumption signifies less a search for equality with their male counterparts than a desire to interact with and seduce them. Finally, by drinking this way, they attempt to affirm themselves as youth rather than as women or Irish.

To evaluate psychological treatments for adolescent binge-eating disorder (BED), reliable information on therapeutic process factors is needed. This study examines therapist adherence and therapeutic alliance and their associations in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for adolescents with BED. In a randomised-controlled efficacy trial, adherence and alliance were objectively determined based on 247 audio-taped CBT sessions from a sample of N = 64 adolescents with BED. Variability of adherence and alliance, explained by treatment module, patient, and therapist were examined using multilevel modeling. Although adherence and alliance were excellent and unaffected by treatment module and therapist, there was significant between-patient variability for both concepts. Adherence was negatively associated with patient's treatment expectation. Alliance was negatively associated with the number of loss of control eating episodes and positively associated with adherence. Excellent adherence supported the internal validity of CBT for adolescent BED. Associations between process factors and patient characteristics demand adequate supervision in CBT.

To provide a comprehensive meta-analysis on the efficacy of psychological and medical treatments for binge-eating disorder (BED), including those targeting weight loss. Method: Through a systematic search before March 2018, 81 published and unpublished randomized-controlled trials (RCTs), totaling 7,515 individuals with BED (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition [DSM–IV] and Fifth Edition [DSM–5]), were retrieved and analyzed using random-effect modeling. Results: In RCTs with inactive control groups, psychotherapy, mostly consisting of cognitive-behavioral therapy, showed large-size effects for the reduction of binge-eating episodes and abstinence from binge eating, followed by structured self-help treatment with medium-to-large effects when compared with wait-list. Pharmacotherapy and pharmacological weight loss treatment mostly outperformed pill placebo conditions with small effects on binge-eating outcome. These results were confirmed for the most common treatments of cognitive-behavioral therapy, self-help treatment based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, and lisdexamfetamine. In RCTs with active control groups, there was limited evidence for the superiority of one treatment category or treatment. In a few studies, psychotherapy outperformed behavioral weight loss treatment in short- and long-term binge-eating outcome and led to lower longer-term abstinence than self-help treatment, while combined treatment revealed no additive effect on binge-eating outcome over time. Overall study quality was heterogeneous and the quality of evidence for binge-eating outcome was generally very low. Conclusions: This comprehensive meta-analysis demonstrated the efficacy of psychotherapy, structured self-help treatment, and pharmacotherapy for patients with BED. More high quality research on treatments for BED is warranted, with a focus on long-term maintenance of therapeutic gains, comparative efficacy, mechanisms through which treatments work, and complex models of care.

Binge-eating disorder (BED) is characterized by recurrent objective binge eating that occurs in the absence of compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain. As the most common eating disorder emerging in youth, BED co-occurs with increased eating disorder and general psychopathology, impaired quality of life, and obesity [1]. Despite its clinical significance, there is a dearth of treatment studies in adolescents [1, 2]. Regarding cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the most well-established treatment for adults with BED [2], one pilot randomized-controlled trial (RCT) in 25 adolescent girls with objective binge eating suggested superiority to wait-list (WL) in achieving binge-eating abstinence through 6 months following randomization and in improving eating disorder psychopathology, but not in reducing binge eating or standardized body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) [3]. Other CBT-related RCTs documented efficacy of Internet-based, weight loss-oriented self-help versus WL [4] and no differences in dialectical behavior therapy versus weight management [5]. Based on this preliminary evidence, the aim of the BEDA (Binge Eating Disorder in Adolescents) study was to provide a confirmatory test of the efficacy of CBT in adolescent BED. It was hypothesized that CBT will be superior to WL in improving binge eating, associated psychopathology, and quality of life, but not BMI, with long-term maintenance of effects.

Objective: Loss of control (LOC) eating is a salient indicator of eating disorder psychopathology in adolescents and is associated with marked distress. While research has focused on the relevance of episode size, clinical significance of LOC eating frequency has rarely been explored. Therefore, this study aimed at identifying LOC eating prevalence with respect to its recurrence and associated variables in a community-based sample. Method: Participants were 1643 adolescents, aged 12-20 years (62.4% female). Based on EDE-Q self-report, participants were categorized as those reporting recurrent (N = 156; 9.5%), non-recurrent (N = 226; 13.8%) and no LOC eating (N = 1261; 76.7%). Results: Adolescents with recurrent LOC eating reported clinically relevant and significantly greater eating disorder psychopathology, functional impairment and distress because of LOC eating, and a significantly higher body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) than adolescents with non-recurrent and those without LOC eating. Discussion: These results underline that LOC eating is a common eating behavior among adolescents in the community associated with clinical characteristics of eating disorders, and could therefore be a risk factor for developing full- or partial-syndrome eating disorders. Further research on the classification of eating disorders in adolescents with LOC eating and severity indicators is warranted.

A sizeable body of research has documented Expressed Emotion (EE) to predict clinical outcomes in various psychiatric disorders, including eating disorders. Patients’ perceptions of relative’s EE, however, were found to play an important role in the processing of EE. This study aimed to examine the level of perceived EE in adolescent binge-eating disorder (BED) and its impact on eating disorder psychopathology. Adolescents (12 – 20 years) seeking treatment for BED (n = 40) were compared to adolescents without current or lifetime eating disorder (CG; n = 40). Both groups were stratified according to age, sex, body mass index (BMI, kg/m2), and socio-economic status. The Five Minute Speech Sample (FMSS) and the Brief Dyadic Scale of EE were administered to assess patients’ perceived maternal EE. Additionally, adolescents and mothers completed questionnaires on eating disorder and general psychopathology. On the FMSS, 37.5% of patients with BED perceived their mothers as high EE (vs. 12.5% in the CG). On the Brief Dyadic Scale of EE, patients with BED reported significantly higher levels of perceived maternal criticism, emotional overinvolvement, and lower levels of perceived warmth than controls. After controlling for the diagnosis of BED, perceived criticism and warmth, as assessed by questionnaire, significantly explained adolescents’ global eating disorder psychopathology. Negative perceptions of maternal behavior and emotional atmosphere towards the child are characteristic of adolescent BED. As documented for other eating disorders, family factors are likely to have substantial implications for the maintenance and treatment of adolescent BED.