Piloting a Novel Intuitive Eating Intervention for College Women With Disordered Eating

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

71 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-09-14

Study Completion Date

2019-06-19

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Disordered Eating Behaviors

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

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 Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Intuitive Eating Group Intervention

Intuitive eating intervention delivered in a group format with 8-10 women, led by 2 facilitators.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Group Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants in the group intervention will attend eight weekly, 90-minute sessions involving group activities and discussions. They will complete homework between sessions to reinforce learning. The intervention focuses on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.

Intuitive Eating Guided Self-Help

Participants in this condition engage in 8 weeks of self-study of the intuitive eating intervention have \~20 minute weekly phone call with a study interventionist.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Guided Self-Help

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants in the GSH condition will follow the intuitive eating content through self-guided study, with eight weekly scheduled phone calls with an interventionist (\~20 minutes each). Interventionists will review homework assignments, answer questions, and reinforce adherence. The intervention materials are the same as the group and also focus on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.

Interventions

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Group Intervention

Participants in the group intervention will attend eight weekly, 90-minute sessions involving group activities and discussions. They will complete homework between sessions to reinforce learning. The intervention focuses on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Guided Self-Help

Participants in the GSH condition will follow the intuitive eating content through self-guided study, with eight weekly scheduled phone calls with an interventionist (\~20 minutes each). Interventionists will review homework assignments, answer questions, and reinforce adherence. The intervention materials are the same as the group and also focus on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL