Eating Disorders Prevention: An Effectiveness Trial for At-Risk College Students

NCT ID: NCT01126918

Last Updated: 2016-09-30

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

432 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-04-30

Study Completion Date

2016-02-29

Brief Summary

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This three-site effectiveness trial will test whether a brief dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program produces intervention effects when college counselors, psychologists, and nurses are responsible for participant recruitment, screening, and intervention delivery under ecologically valid conditions.

Detailed Description

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Threshold and subthreshold eating disorders affect over 10% of young women and are associated with functional impairment, distress, psychiatric comorbidity, medical complications, mortality, and risk for obesity onset. Accordingly, a pressing public healthy priority is to develop effective prevention programs for eating pathology. The proposed project will be the first effectiveness trial to test whether an eating disorder prevention program with strong empirical support from efficacy trials produces effects under ecologically valid conditions among high-risk female college students, which is a vital step toward widespread dissemination of programs developed with NIH funding. The proposed cost-effectiveness analyses and examination of process factors that predict larger intervention effects will also represent novel contributions to the literature.

Conditions

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Eating Disorders Obesity

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Brochure Condition

Participants in this condition receive an educational brochure about healthy body image via post-mail.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Body Project

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants in this intervention attend four 1-hour group meetings (one per week for four consecutive weeks) in which they complete a series of written and verbal exercises intended to increase body satisfaction.

Group Condition

Participants in this condition attend four 1-hour group meetings (one per week for four consecutive weeks) in which they complete a series of written and verbal exercises intended to increase body satisfaction.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Body Project

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants in this intervention attend four 1-hour group meetings (one per week for four consecutive weeks) in which they complete a series of written and verbal exercises intended to increase body satisfaction.

Interventions

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Body Project

Participants in this intervention attend four 1-hour group meetings (one per week for four consecutive weeks) in which they complete a series of written and verbal exercises intended to increase body satisfaction.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* (1) is a registered student at a participating school, (2) self-reports body image concerns

Exclusion Criteria

* meets DSM-IV criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge eating disorder
Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Texas at Austin

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Drexel University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Oregon Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Eric Stice, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Oregon Research Institute

Meghan Butryn, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Drexel University

Locations

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Northwest Christian University

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Site Status

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon, United States

Site Status

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas, United States

Site Status

Southwestern University

Georgetown, Texas, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Stice E, Desjardins C, Shaw H, Siegel S, Gee K, Rohde P. Prevalence, incidence, impairment, course, and diagnostic progression and transition of eating disorders, overweight, and obesity in a large prospective study of high-risk young women. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2025 May;134(4):427-437. doi: 10.1037/abn0000965. Epub 2024 Nov 7.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 39509183 (View on PubMed)

Stice E, Desjardins CD, Rohde P. Young women who develop anorexia nervosa exhibit a persistently low premorbid body weight on average: A longitudinal investigation of an important etiologic clue. J Psychopathol Clin Sci. 2022 Jul;131(5):479-492. doi: 10.1037/abn0000762. Epub 2022 Jun 2.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35653756 (View on PubMed)

Stice E, Desjardins CD, Rohde P, Shaw H. Sequencing of symptom emergence in anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and purging disorder and relations of prodromal symptoms to future onset of these disorders. J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 May;130(4):377-387. doi: 10.1037/abn0000666.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 34180702 (View on PubMed)

Stice E, Rohde P, Shaw H, Desjardins C. Weight suppression increases odds for future onset of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and purging disorder, but not binge eating disorder. Am J Clin Nutr. 2020 Oct 1;112(4):941-947. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqaa146.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32534455 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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MH086582

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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