SOMEBODY, a Social Media-based Eating Disorder Prevention Program

NCT ID: NCT04810403

Last Updated: 2022-05-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 8 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-03-29
• Study Completion Date: 2022-04-22

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.

Conditions

Eating Disorder Symptom

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

SOMEBODY Eating Disorder Prevention Program

All participants will be recruited to participate in the SOcial MEdia (SOME) adaptation of activities from the BODY Project (SOMEBODY).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

SOMEBODY Eating Disorder Prevention Program

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Participants will receive daily activities to complete on their most frequently used social media platform for 14 consecutive days. Daily activities have been adapted from the Body Project - an intervention that has been demonstrated to reduce internalization of the thin ideal and reduce risk for eating disorders. Examples of activities to be piloted include unfollowing social media accounts the participant perceives as reinforcing the thin-ideal and posting a selfie without makeup or editing. Based on feedback from participants, the intervention may be altered to improve acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary evidence of potential efficacy.

Interventions

SOMEBODY Eating Disorder Prevention Program

Participants will receive daily activities to complete on their most frequently used social media platform for 14 consecutive days. Daily activities have been adapted from the Body Project - an intervention that has been demonstrated to reduce internalization of the thin ideal and reduce risk for eating disorders. Examples of activities to be piloted include unfollowing social media accounts the participant perceives as reinforcing the thin-ideal and posting a selfie without makeup or editing. Based on feedback from participants, the intervention may be altered to improve acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary evidence of potential efficacy.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 25 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Florida State University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Pamela Keel

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Pamela K Keel, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Florida State University

Locations

Florida State University Psychology Department

Tallahassee, Florida, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

00001960

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id