BABE(Body Appreciation and Better Eating), Add Some Self-compassion

NCT ID: NCT05786560

Last Updated: 2023-05-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 13 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-06-09
• Study Completion Date: 2023-08-15

Brief Summary

Body dissatisfaction is most common among girls in their teenage years and young adulthood, this is also around the time where the risk of developing binge eating disorder is the highest. Black/African American girls are more likely to engage in binge eating behaviors compared to their White American counterparts; however, they receive less help for eating issues. Further, increase rates of obesity in the Black/African American population may indicate that binge eating may be a bigger problem for this population than discussed. Therefore, the primary purpose of this randomized controlled pilot is to assess the feasibility of this pilot study to be used in a large scale fully-powered study. The secondary purpose of this study is to assess if two different nutrition and body image programs elicit positive outcomes among Black/African American teenage girls who indicate a desire to improve body image.

Conditions

Body Image; Eating Behavior; Binge Eating; Nutrition, Healthy; Disordered Eating

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Body image + nutrition education +self-compassion

For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for about 30 minutes, then will be given about a 30 minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. The nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The three self-compassion constructs will be targeted in the following ways: (1) Mindfulness will involve bringing awareness to feelings and emotions about a time during the week where participants ate a food lower in nutritional value. (2) Common Humanity involves finding ways in which their experience connects to others and acknowledging that being human comes with imperfections. (3) Self-Kindness will involve having girls speak kind and understanding words to themselves as it relates to their eating-related downfall of the week.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The participants will be randomized into either a treatment or control group. For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for 30 minutes, then will be given a 30-minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. Nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The control group will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class and the same 30-minute nutrition education class; however, there will be no incorporation of self-compassion.

Body image + nutrition education

For the control arm, participants will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class, then participants will be given a 30-minute nutrition education lesson. The nutrition lesson plans will have no components of self-compassion intertwined within the lesson, but the nutrition content will be the same as the treatment group.

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The participants will be randomized into either a treatment or control group. For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for 30 minutes, then will be given a 30-minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. Nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The control group will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class and the same 30-minute nutrition education class; however, there will be no incorporation of self-compassion.

Interventions

BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)

The participants will be randomized into either a treatment or control group. For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for 30 minutes, then will be given a 30-minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. Nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The control group will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class and the same 30-minute nutrition education class; however, there will be no incorporation of self-compassion.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Female
• Black (Afro-Latina)/African American teenage girls
• Age 13 to 18 years old
• Attend high school in the United States
• Interest in nutrition

Exclusion Criteria

• Eating disorder diagnosis
• Pregnancy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of South Carolina

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Nkechi Okpara

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Nkechi Okpara, MS, RDN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of South Carolina

Locations

University of South Carolina

Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

Pro00120545

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id