Prospective participants will verbally consent to an initial eligibility phone screen. If the participant is eligible to participate in the full study, they will be invited to the pre-treatment assessment. Informed consent will be obtained prior to starting the pre-treatment assessment via HIPAA-com...
During the Stroop task, participants are asked to correctly identify the color of the stimulus on a computer screen [95, 96]. During the 5-min stress period, participants will see a series of words (“red”, “green”, “blue”, “yellow”) on the screen and will be asked to correctl...
cost of in vivo exposure and the additional difficulty of applying the exposure technique in an appropriate way (controlling important variables such as the duration of the exposure or the number of sessions) - due to the limited access to the feared stimulus (i.e., airport or airplane) [15...
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The 26-item Eating Behavior Inventory (EBI) [111,112] is used to assess the extent to which participants adhere to behavioral weight control strategies (such as stimulus control and calorie counting). In another questionnaire, self-weighing, self-monitoring, stimulus control, and problem solving ...
The main components of the system include the following: (1) a computer with an 11.6-inch monitor used for stimulus presentation, (2) an eye tracker that allows the continuous tracking of each eye gaze position, (3) anaglyph glasses worn during the treatment to separate stimuli presented to ...
Educational materials were also designed to encourage males to change their health behaviours by recognizing how physical inactivity and poor nutrition can adversely affect health and by using this recognition as a stimulus to set goals to make positive changes to these behaviours [27]. The ManUp ...
” Topics to be covered include the value of regularizing bed and wake times, devising a rise-up routine, devising a wind-down routine, reducing sleep-related worry/anxiety (i.e., relax the mind strategies), improving sleep efficiency (i.e., stimulus control and sleep restriction), and ...
Administered in both individual and group settings, this type of intervention aims to enhance self-efficacy, promote coping strategies and problem-solving skills, while addressing dysfunctional cognitions, reinforcing stimulus control, and social activation [10]. CBT for weight management is primarily ...