Trial reportBehaviour research and therapy2014
Effectiveness of a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program for ethnic groups in two randomized controlled trials.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effectiveness of Youth and Young Adult Peer Support in Mental Health Services: A Systematic Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Meta-analytic review of dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Intervention, participant, and facilitator features that predict larger effects.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Dissonance-based eating disorder prevention improves intuitive eating: a randomized controlled trial for Brazilian women with body dissatisfaction.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Trial
- Cultural adaptation of an integrated eating disorders prevention and healthy weight management program.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Sex and ethnic/racial differences in disordered eating behaviors and intuitive eating among college student.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Peer Facilitation: Accelerating Individual, Community, and Societal Change.Advances in peer-led learning · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of the Body Project eating disorder prevention program for different racial and ethnic groups and an evaluation of the potential benefits of ethnic matching.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Article
- 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
- A controlled trial of a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention program with Brazilian girls.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2019Article
- Ethnic differences in eating disorder prevalence, risk factors, and predictive effects of risk factors among young women.Eating behaviors · 2019Article
- Do participant, facilitator, or group factors moderate effectiveness of the Body Project? Implications for dissemination.Behaviour research and therapy · 2014Article
- The need for more inclusive measurement to advance equity in eating disorders prevention.Eating disordersArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveAs young women from certain ethnic minority groups have reported less pursuit of the thin ideal and body dissatisfaction than European American young women we tested whether a dissonance-based prevention program designed to reduce thin-ideal internalization among women with body dissatisfaction is less effective for the former relative to the later groups. We also tested whether intervention effects are larger when participants from minority groups worked with a facilitator matched versus not matched on ethnicity.
methodIn Study 1, 426 female undergraduates (M age=21.6, SD=5.6) were randomized to clinician-led Body Project groups or an educational control group. In Study 2, 189 female undergraduates were randomized to peer-led Body Project groups or a waitlist control condition.
resultsAlthough there was some variation in risk factor scores across ethnic groups, ethnic minority participants did not demonstrate consistently higher or lower risk relative to European American participants. Intervention effects did not significantly differ for participants from minority groups versus European American participants in either trial. There was no evidence that effects were significantly larger when minority participants and facilitators were matched on ethnicity.
conclusionsResults suggest that the Body Project is similarly effective for African American, Asian American, European American, and Hispanic female college students, and when participants and facilitators are matched or not on minority ethnicity status, implying that this prevention program can be broadly disseminated in this population.
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