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The tpe - teresa project: Enhancing long-term management in obesity and binge eating disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

E. Prosperi ,
G. Guidi ,
M.F. Calabria ,
L. Gnessi  and
L. Iocchi
E. Prosperi
Affiliation:
Siet, Italian Society Therapeutic Education, Roma, Italy
G. Guidi
Affiliation:
Siet, Italian Society Therapeutic Education, Roma, Italy
M.F. Calabria*
Affiliation:
Siet, Italian Society Therapeutic Education, Roma, Italy
L. Gnessi
Affiliation:
Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Roma, Italy
L. Iocchi
Affiliation:
Sapienza Università Di Roma, Italy, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale, Roma, Italy
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Therapeutic Education (TE) is a powerful tool in the multidisciplinary intervention to improve lifestyle and acquire management skills for chronic diseases, including obesity, a clinical condition whose cure is highly threatened by low long-term adherence to therapeutic recommendations. The urgent need to promote persistent lifestyle change and concordance to treatment in PwO is globally recognized. TE programs offer a vast number of long-term management skills, but it yet deals with a consistent drop-out rate, and we believe that Assistive Technologies (AT) can become a powerful tool to boost independence and improve participation.

Objectives

The goal of our study was to devise and validate an innovative multidisciplinary approach to obesity and binge eating disorder, based on the sinergy between the medical-psychological field and assistive techonolgy.

Methods

We developed “TERESA” (Therapeutic Educational Robot Enhancing Social interActions) (fig. 1), a social humanoid robot, and implemented it to collaborate in a TE programs in order to enhance social interactions, improve knowledge acquisition and adherence to treatment. The specific TE intervention, called Education towards Choice and Awareness, was based on 3rd generation cognitive-behavioral approaches and consisted in eight informative and experimental meetings.

Results

Taking part in the TE-TERESA integrated protocol determined and improvement in psychopathological domains (anxiety, negative mood, quality of life) and a stronger concordance to the therapeutic protocol.

Conclusions

Our research paves the way for the clinical use of Assistive technology (AT), highly promoted by the WHO to help people with numerous disabling clinical conditions improve their quality of life and acquire self-management skills.

Keywords

therapeutic educationobesitybinge eating disorderassistive technology
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S358 - S359
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