Table 1.

Randomized controlled HAES studies reported in peer-reviewed journals

Investigation	Group typea (n)	Population	Number of treatment sessions	Follow-up (number of weeks post treatment)	Attrition	Improvements			Decre-ments
						Physio-logic	Health behaviors	Psycho-social
Provencher, et al., 2009[17] and 2007[20]	HAES (n = 48); social support (n = 48); control (n = 48)	Overweight and obese women	15	26	8%; 19%; 21%	Not evaluated	Eating behaviors	Not evaluated	None
Bacon et al, 2005 [11] and 2002[19]	HAES (n = 39); diet (n = 39)	Obese women, chronic dieters	30	52	8%; 42%	LDL, systolic blood pressure	Activity, binge eating	Self esteem, depression, body dissatisfact-ion, body image, interoceptive awareness	None
Rapaport et al., 2000[16]	Modified cognitive-behavioral treatment (n= 37); cognitive behavioral treatment (n= 38)	Overweight and obese women	10	52	16%; 16%	Total cholesterolb, LDL cholesterolb, systolic blood pressureb, diastolic blood pressureb	Activityb, dietary qualityb	Emotional well-beingb, distressb	None
Ciliska, 1998[12]	Psycho-educational (n = 29); education only (n = 26), waitlist control (n = 23)	Obese women	12	52	14%; 23%; 41%	Diastolic blood pressure	Binge eating	Self-esteem, body dissatisfact-ion, depression	None
Goodrick et al., 1998[13]	Nondiet (n = 62); diet (n = 65); wait-list control (n = 58)	Overweight and obese women, binge-eaters	50	78	Not reported	Not evaluated	Binge-eating, exerciseb	Not evaluated	None
Tanco, et al., 1998[14]	Cognitive group treatment (n = 20); weight loss (n = 21); waitlist control (n = 19)	Obese women	8	26	10%; 10%; 32%	Not evaluated	Not evaluated	Depression, anxiety, eating-related psycho-pathology, perception of self-control	None

^a HAES group listed first and in bold. (The names reflect those used in the publication.)

^b Improvement in HAES group, but not statistically different from the control.