Clinical trial NCT05794763: The Body Project: Comparing the Effectiveness of an In-person and Virtually Delivered Intervention.
Official title: The Body Project: Comparing the Effectiveness of an In-person and Virtually Delivered Intervention.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Eating Disorders
Keywords: Prevention
Peer Leader
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Lead sponsor: Stanford University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-04-03
Enrollment: 69
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This present study will compare the efficacy of in-person versus virtually-delivered Body Project groups. It will also evaluate whether this body acceptance class produces greater reductions in eating disorder risk factor symptoms (pursuit of the thin ideal, body dissatisfaction, dieting, dietary restraint, negative affect, eating disorder symptoms, and the future onset of eating disorders over a 3-month follow-up in this population. It will also evaluate the effectiveness of this body acceptance class's ability to impact social appearance anxiety, body compassion, and self-stigma surrounding attaining help.

Detailed description: Dozens of eating disorder prevention programs have been evaluated, but only the 4-hr Body Project has reduced eating disorder symptoms and future eating disorder onset over 3-4 year follow-up, produced larger reductions in outcomes than credible alternative interventions, been shown to engage the intervention target (valuation of the thin beauty ideal), and produced effects in trials from several independent teams. The proposed study will evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-implemented, virtually delivered, body acceptance class compared to a peer-implemented, in-person delivery of the same class. Participation in the intervention will last four weeks. Participants will be randomly assigned to the in-person or virtual body acceptance class. Assessments will take place at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 3-month follow-up.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria: Participants had to express body image concerns and all gender identities besides cisgender and transgender men were eligible.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Cisgender and transgender men were excluded due to the fact that The Body Project is typically administered with groups of all cisgender women.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change Over Time in Body Dissatisfaction
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention (after completion of 4 weeks of group session once a week)
measure: Change Over Time in Thin Ideal Internalization
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention (after completion of 4 weeks of group session once a week)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change Over Time in Negative Affect
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention (after completion of 4 weeks of group session once a week)
measure: Change Over Time in Dieting
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention (after completion of 4 weeks of group session once a week)
measure: Body Comparison Orientation
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention (after completion of 4 weeks of group session once a week)
measure: Change Over Time in Social Appearance Anxiety
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention.
measure: Change Over Time in Body Compassion
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention.
measure: Change Over Time in Self-Stigma of Seeking Help Scale
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention.
measure: Number of Eating Disorder Behaviors (Events) as a Measure of Change Over Time in Eating Disorder Symptoms
timeFrame: Pre intervention and 3 months after the end of the intervention.
measure: Body Project Specific Attitude Measures
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention.
measure: Body Project Specific Outcome Measures
timeFrame: Pre intervention obtained on intake, and immediately post intervention.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Palo Alto
country: United States
facility: Stanford University
state: California
city: Saint Marys City
country: United States
facility: St. Mary's College of Maryland
state: Maryland
Study officials:
affiliation: Stanford University
name: Eric Stice, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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