Eligibility criteria for included trials

Inclusion criteria 

  • Randomised-controlled trials and protocols of RCTs

  • Intervention aiming to reduce weight-related outcome OR improve cardiometabolic risk

  • Intervention delivered to adolescents or adults with overweight, obesity or severe obesity

  • Measurement of at least one eating disorder risk factor pre-intervention and post-intervention or follow-up using a validated assessment tool including eating disorder diagnosis (based on a diagnostic interview or clinician assessment), global eating disorder risk score, binge eating score or identified engagement in binge eating, loss of control eating and/ or bulimic symptoms/ compensatory behaviours

Exclusion criteria

  • Interventions including bariatric surgery and post-surgical interventions

  • Pharmacotherapy and dietary supplement interventions (meal replacements included)

  • Interventions targeted at the prevention of overweight

  • Interventions treating secondary or syndromic causes of obesity

  • Interventions treating an alternate medical condition (e.g. depression, diabetes, NAFLD, sleep apnoea, cancer) in a sample with overweight or obesity

  • Interventions treating eating disorders or conducted in people with an eating disorder