Objectives: Emotional eating is recognized as a potential contributor to weight gain. Emotional eaters often hide their problems because of feelings of shame about their behavior, making it challenging to provide them with the necessary support. The introduction of a virtual coach might offer a potential …

Background Emotional eating is a complex problem fostering obesity and resulting from maladaptive emotionregulation. Traditional behavioural weight loss interventions have shown insignificant effect. They can be improvedby targeting the specific needs of individuals with emotional eating. Objective The …

Background: Around 13% of the world’s population suffers from obesity. More than 40% of people with obesity display emotional eating behaviour (eating in response to negative emotions or distress). It is an alternate to more effective coping strategies for negative emotions. Our study explored the opportunities …

Conclusies en aanbevelingen De groepsleiding van de dagbehandeling Okki en Pinokkio zal in de toekomst meer als één team gaan samenwerken. Daardoor zal er meer gebruik gemaakt kunnen worden van een verticale groepsindeling. In het literatuur- en praktijkonderzoek is naar voren gekomen hoe er gebruik …