Trial reportThe International journal of eating disorders2016
The body project 4 all: A pilot randomized controlled trial of a mixed-gender dissonance-based body image program.
Trial report in The International journal of eating disorders, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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An Evaluation of the Peer-delivered EVERYbody Project: Eating Disorder Risk Factor Reduction for College Students
A Pilot Evaluation of the EVERYbody Project: Professionally-delivered Inclusive Eating Disorder Risk Factor Reduction for College Students
Expert Peer Facilitation of the EVERYbody Project: A Randomized-controlled Evaluation of a Diversity-focused, Dissonance-based, Universal Body Image Program for College Students
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Youth and Young Adult Peer Support in Mental Health Services: A Systematic Review.Administration and policy in mental health · 2025Pooled it
- The effectiveness of peer support from a person with lived experience of mental health challenges for young people with anxiety and depression: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2023Pooled 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
- Efficacy of the Mental Health App "Intellect" to Improve Body Image and Self-compassion in Young Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial With a 4-Week Follow-up.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Trial
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- Clinician-led, peer-led, and internet-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Acute effectiveness of these delivery modalities.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2017Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of The Body Project: More Than Muscles for men with body dissatisfaction.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Trial
- Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Psychological Functioning as Prospective Predictors of Inflexible Eating.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Lessons learned from a randomised controlled trial of a digital intervention targeting eating disorder symptoms in cisgender sexual minoritized men.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Muscle dysmorphia in adolescents and young adults.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2026Review
- Emotion regulation and body image across the eating disorder symptom severity spectrum: a comparative analysis of young and middle-aged women.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Culturally adapted body image program for Mexican university women: feasibility, acceptability, and cultural relevance in a Pilot RCT protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A systematic review of peer support interventions for student mental health and well-being in higher education.BJPsych open · 2023Review
- 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
- Implementing peer support in higher education: A feasibility study.SSM. Mental health · 2022Article
- 'Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session': study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents.BMC public health · 2021Article
- The Body Confident Mums challenge: a feasibility trial and qualitative evaluation of a body acceptance program delivered to mothers using Facebook.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe Body Project is a cognitive dissonance-based body image improvement program with ample research support among female samples. More recently, researchers have highlighted the extent of male body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors; however, boys/men have not been included in the majority of body image improvement programs. This study aims to explore the efficacy of a mixed-gender Body Project compared with the historically female-only body image intervention program.
methodParticipants included male and female college students (N = 185) across two sites. We randomly assigned women to a mixed-gender modification of the two-session, peer-led Body Project (MG), the two-session, peer-led, female-only (FO) Body Project, or a waitlist control (WL), and men to either MG or WL. Participants completed self-report measures assessing negative affect, appearance-ideal internalization, body satisfaction, and eating disorder pathology at baseline, post-test, and at 2- and 6-month follow-up.
resultsLinear mixed effects modeling to estimate the change from baseline over time for each dependent variable across conditions were used. For women, results were mixed regarding post-intervention improvement compared with WL, and were largely non-significant compared with WL at 6-month follow-up. Alternatively, results indicated that men in MG consistently improved compared with WL through 6-month follow-up on all measures except negative affect and appearance-ideal internalization. DISCUSSION: Results differed markedly between female and male samples, and were more promising for men than for women. Various explanations are provided, and further research is warranted prior to drawing firm conclusions regarding mixed-gender programming of the Body Project. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.(Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:591-602).
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