Clinical trial NCT05583162: Healthy Sport Project; Preventing Eating Disorders in Sport
Official title: Healthy Sport Project: "Recovery, Body Acceptance and Health in Young Athletes"
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorders
Body Dissatisfaction
Disordered Eating
Adolescent - Emotional Problem
Athletic Injuries
Keywords: eating disorders
disordered eating
body dissatisfaction
figure idealisation
mental health
prevention
athlete
sport
adolescent
elite sport
Lead sponsor: Ostfold University College
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
name: Oslo University Hospital
First posted: 2022-10-17
Enrollment: 73
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 14
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: A cohort of athletes receive intervention in this pilot study, and changes from pre to post intervention are evaluated
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The "Healthy Sport Project" is an adapted program from the Body Project by prof Eric Stice, aiming to reduce body dissatisfaction and symptoms of disordered eating and eating disorders in adolescent elite athletes. This trial aim to evaluate the effect of the program using a one-arm pilot study design in 14 years age old athletes at a Norwegian Elite Sport Junior High School.

Detailed description: Eating disorders (EDs) are serious illnesses with highest incidence in adolescents. Moreover, athletes have a higher frequency of symptoms of disordered eating (DE) and EDs than non-athletes. There are many reasons to this health issue, but body appearance pressure, competing in body mass sensitive sports, and comments on body appearance are important explanations. Few programs have proved effective in preventing DE and EDs in the general population, or in athletes specifically, and none is permanent operative in sports in Norway. Body Project by prof Eric Stice have proved effective in preventing body dissatisfaction, figure idealization and new onset of EDs in female adolescents above 15 years of age, and with body dissatisfaction, from the general population. A few attempts to adapt this program to female athletes, argue for a comparative positive effect. Three important elements to further address, are: 1) programs need also to be tested in males; 2) programs need to be tested in adolescents of younger age before the typical onset of an ED; and 3) programs need to be possible to administer by non-professionals.

In this study the research group aim to adapt and test the effect of the Body Project, by the pilot study the "Healthy Sport Project", in elite junior athletes attending specialized junior sport high schools (age 14). The final goal for this project group is to create an effective preventive program for body dissatisfaction and DE/EDs in young athletes of both sexes and in mixed sports, and which may be administered by the schoolteachers.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* pupil at the recruited Sport Jr High School

Exclusion Criteria:

* no informed consent from parents
* not willing to participate
* a diagnosis of an eating disorder and being under (or waiting for) treatment

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in symptoms of Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Questionnaire Short-form
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in Body Acceptance, Body Acceptance Scale, version 2
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in symptoms of internalization of body figure ideals, SATAQ-4
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Experiences from participating in the project
timeFrame: After intervention (post, +6 weeks)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in experiences of Body Appearance Pressure (BAP), questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in experiences of Body Appearance Pressure (BAP), questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in dietary habits, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in dietary habits, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in dietary habits, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Change in nutrition knowledge, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other outcomes:
measure: Question on injuries, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Question on injuries, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
measure: Demographics, questions by research group
timeFrame: Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Locations:
city: Fredrikstad
country: Norway
facility: Therese Fostervold Mathisen
Study officials:
affiliation: Østfold University College
name: Therese F Mathisen, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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