SALUT BED (a guided self help program for Binge Eating Disorder)
This innovative program, rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy principles, aims to guide users towards reestablishing control over their eating patterns, and promote a healthier lifestyle and sustainable weight management. It comprises 11 modules, rich with illustrative examples and interactive exercises, intended to be accomplished within a period of 4 to 6 months.
Key Features:
The Online Diary
You start this key exercise by first recording your eating behavior in the Diary.
New themes are added, as you progress, to help you record situations, thoughts, or emotions that triggers compulsive or binge eating.
Automatic feedback
Based on these observations, the program will provide feedback to help you identify those situations, thoughts, or emotions that trigger compulsive or binge eating.
Examples: Emotional triggers
Explained and unexplained binges
Personal strategies
Over time, you will develop a list of personal strategies for preventing or delaying binges. You will also learn problem solving and self-assertiveness techniques to help you manage emotional or stressful situations that are often linked to compulsive eating or binging. Example of personal strategy list
Other exercises
The program also help you develop personal strategies to achieve the following:
- Setting up realistic meal schedules,
- Making peace with forbidden food. So you can eat a little of everything, but not everything,
- Learning relaxation and mindfulness exercises,
- Getting motivated and more active.
SALUT BED publications
[1]Martina de Zwaan, MD; Stephan Herpertz, MD; Stephan Zipfel, MD; Jennifer Svaldi, PhD; Hans-Christoph Friederich, MD; Frauke Schmidt, PhD; Andreas Mayr, PhD; Tony Lam, MBA; Carmen Schade-Brittinger, PhD; Anja Hilbert, PhD., Effect of Internet-Based Guided Self-help vs Individual Face-to-Face Treatment on Full or Subsyndromal Binge Eating Disorder in Overweight or Obese Patients, The INTERBED Randomized Clinical Trial, JAMA Psychiatry. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry. 2017.2150 Published online August 2, 2017.
[2]Carrard, I., et al., Randomised controlled trial of a guided self-help treatment on the Internet for binge eating disorder, Behaviour Research and Therapy (2011), doi:10.1016/j.brat. 2011.05.004
[3] Carrard I., Crépin C., Rouget P., Lam, T., Van der Linden M., Golay A. Acceptance and Efficacy of a Guided Internet Self-Help Treatment Program for Obese Patients with Binge Eating Disorder, Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health, 2011, 7, 8-18
[4] Carrard, I. et al. (2010). Guided self-treatment on the Internet for obese patients with binge eating disorder. Poster for International conference of Obesity (ICO), Stockholm 2010