Trial reportThe International journal of eating disorders2014
Dissonance-based prevention of eating disorder risk factors in middle school girls: results from two pilot trials.
Trial report in The International journal of eating disorders, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of eating disorder preventative interventions in schools.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Pooled it
- School-Based Interventions Improve Body Image and Media Literacy in Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2022Pooled it
- School-based eating disorder prevention programmes and their impact on adolescent mental health: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2024Review
- Is a dissonance-based group intervention targeting thin-ideal internalization a successful potential add-on for specialized eating disorder care? A randomized feasibility and acceptability pilot study.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Prevention and early intervention in eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Implementation factors that predict larger effects from a peer educator delivered eating disorder prevention program at universities.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Adapting the body project to a non-western culture: a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention program for Saudi women.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Emotional reactivity to binge food and erotic cues in women with bulimia nervosa symptoms.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Body dissatisfaction in adolescents with eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2018Article
- From efficacy to effectiveness to broad implementation: Evolution of the Body Project.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Article
- Integrating intervention targets offered by homeostatic theory.Health psychology open · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveAlthough several eating disorder prevention programs reduce eating disorder risk factors and symptoms for female high school and college students, few efficacious prevention programs exist for female middle school students, despite the fact that body image and eating disturbances often emerge then. Two pilot trials evaluated a new dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program for middle school girls with body image concerns.
methodFemale middle school students with body dissatisfaction from two sites [Study 1: N = 81, M age = 12.1, standard deviation (SD) = 0.9; Study 2: N = 52, M age = 12.5, SD = 0.8] were randomized to a dissonance intervention (MS Body Project) or educational brochure control; Study 2 included a 3-month follow-up.
resultsIntervention participants showed significant post-test reductions in only one of the six variables with both Studies 1 and 2 (i.e., pressure to be thin and negative affect, respectively), though post-test effect sizes suggested medium reductions in eating disorder risk factors and symptoms (Study 1: M d = .40; Study 2: M d = .65); reductions at 3-month follow-up in Study 2 were not evident (M d = .19).
conclusionsResults suggest that this new middle school version of the Body Project is producing medium magnitude reductions in eating disorder risk factors at post-test but that effects are showing limited persistence. Continued refinement and evaluation of this intervention appears warranted to develop more effective prevention programs for this age group.
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