Systematic Literature Review on Psychological Treatment Methods for Substance use Disorder and Food Addiction
摘要
Substance use disorder (SUD) and food addiction have acquired increasing focus in recent years among researchers. The increased prevalence of anxiety, addiction, and obesity in these disorders raises the need to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment methods to alleviate their symptoms. As both SUD and food addiction share behavioural components and overlapping neural patterns, there is potential to adapt treatment approaches from one disorder to the other. This study systematically reviewed the literature in the past decade, focusing on the efficacy of various psychological treatments using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. The present research reviewed a total of 48 empirical studies. The results of this review found very limited research on food addiction treatment, with only two studies considering this issue. In contrast, the results identified two central and common psychological treatment methods for SUD: concurrent treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance use disorders using prolonged exposure and computer-assisted delivery of cognitive-behavioural therapy. Taken together, the findings suggest the need for future research on the adaptation of psychological treatments for SUD to food addiction due to the potential shared mechanisms and the limited availability of treatments for food addiction.