Clinical trial NCT03612661: Piloting a Novel Intuitive Eating Intervention for College Women With Disordered Eating
Official title: Piloting a Novel Intuitive Eating Intervention for College Women With Disordered Eating
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Disordered Eating Behaviors
Keywords: disordered eating, body image, intuitive eating, undergraduates, college, unhealthy weight control behaviors, eating disorders, weight stigma, weight bias
Lead sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-08-02
Enrollment: 71
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomized to either a group or guided self-help condition, of the same intervention, intuitive eating, of the same duration (8 weeks).
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this research study is to pilot test a new intervention that helps young adult women learn adaptive eating and exercise strategies, increase their body acceptance, decrease unhealthy weight control behaviors and prevent future eating and problems. This intervention is experimental, and the study will test its feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness.

Detailed description: The intervention, Intuitive Eating, is an eating approach that addresses important risk factors and promotes adaptive eating attitudes and behaviors. It has three central tenets: 1) unconditional permission to eat when hungry, 2) eating for physical rather than emotional reasons, and 3) eating according to hunger and satiety cues. Intuitive Eating has ten principles that focus on rejecting the dieting mentality, honoring hunger cues, decreasing restrictive behaviors that lead to deprivation and bingeing, challenging rigid food rules, increasing awareness of satiety, discovering the satisfaction of food, coping with emotions without food, respecting and accepting one's body, using exercise as self-care, and balancing nutrition with satisfaction.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Not currently pregnant
* Enrolled in postsecondary education at VCU
* Have body image or eating concerns

Exclusion Criteria:

* Eating disorder threshold risk
* Men
* Pregnant women

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in diagnostic eating disorder symptoms
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Change in global eating disorder symptoms
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in intuitive eating
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in body appreciation
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in dietary restraint
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in body functionality appreciation
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in interoceptive awareness
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in intuitive exercise
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in weight bias internalization
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
measure: Changes in satisfaction with life
timeFrame: Baseline to 16 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University
state: Virginia
Study officials:
affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
name: Suzanne Mazzeo, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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