Clinical trial NCT04810403: SOMEBODY, a Social Media-based Eating Disorder Prevention Program
Official title: An Open Trial Pilot Study of SOMEBODY, a Social Media-based Eating Disorder Prevention Program for College Women
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorder Symptom
Lead sponsor: Florida State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-03-23
Enrollment: 8
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary evidence of potential efficacy of a social-media based intervention to reduce risk factors for eating disorders in college women.

Detailed description: Previous research supports an association between specific aspects of social media use and increased eating pathology in correlational designs and that specific aspects of social media use cause increases in risk factors for eating disorders. The aim of the current project is to determine whether social media use can be altered to cause decreases in eating disorder risk factors. To accomplish this, college women will be recruited to participate in an open trial of a pilot program that adapts activities used within evidence-based eating disorder prevention programs to be used on social media platforms. The intervention is designed to target internalization of the thin ideal.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* female
* 18 to 25 years old
* score in the top 50th percentile for time spent on social media each day

Exclusion Criteria:

* male
* \<18 years or \>25 years old
* individuals who screen positive for a Diagnostic Statistical Manual-5 eating disorder on the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale

Primary outcomes:
measure: Acceptability of intervention
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Feasibility of intervention
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Change in internalization of the thin ideal
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in body image concerns
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
measure: Change in dietary restraint
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
measure: Change in bulimic symptoms
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
measure: Change in disordered eating
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
measure: Change in social media use
timeFrame: Pre-intervention assessment to post-intervention assessment (or approximately 14 days from baseline)
measure: Adherence to protocol - self-reported
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: Adherence to protocol - observed
timeFrame: Daily for the 14 days of the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tallahassee
country: United States
facility: Florida State University Psychology Department
state: Florida
Study officials:
affiliation: Florida State University
name: Pamela K Keel, Ph.D.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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