Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2019
Randomized trial of a dissonance-based group treatment for eating disorders versus a supportive mindfulness group treatment.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic review of sociodemographic reporting and representation in eating disorder psychotherapy treatment trials in the United States.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Randomized target engagement trial of a dissonance-based transdiagnostic eating disorder treatment versus transdiagnostic interpersonal psychotherapy.Psychological medicine · 2025Trial
- A randomized trial of two group-delivered transdiagnostic eating disorder treatments: Dissonance-based treatment versus interpersonal psychotherapy.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Elevated reward, emotion, and memory region response to thin models predicts eating disorder symptom persistence: A prospective functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Trial
- Evidence that a novel transdiagnostic eating disorder treatment reduces reward region response to the thin beauty ideal and high-calorie binge foods.Psychological medicine · 2023Trial
- Randomized trial of a dissonance-based transdiagnostic group treatment for eating disorders: An evaluation of target engagement.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2019Trial
- Effects of group counseling on height dissatisfaction and attentional bias in adolescence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Response to "Considerations in selecting comparison conditions in psychotherapy trials: Recommendations for future research".Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2025Article
- Waiting for it: Anorexia Risk, Future Orientation, and Intertemporal Discounting.Research square · 2024Article
- Appropriately estimating the standardized average treatment effect with missing data: A simulation and primer.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Psychotherapies for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 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
- A framework for conceptualising early intervention for eating disorders.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2023Review
- Effect of Strength-Based Resilience on Patient's Length of Stay at the Renfrew Center for Eating Disorders.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis report evaluates a dissonance-based group eating disorder treatment designed to be a cost-effective front-line transdiagnostic treatment that could be more widely implemented than extant treatments that are more intensive and expensive relative to a supportive mindfulness group treatment typical of that offered at colleges.
methodYoung women with eating disorders (N = 84) were randomized to 8-week dissonance-based Body Project treatment (BPT) or supportive mindfulness treatment, completing diagnostic interviews and questionnaires at pretest, posttest, and 6-month follow up.
resultsRegarding primary outcomes, by 6-month follow up 77% of BPT participants no longer met diagnosis for an eating disorder versus 60% of supportive mindfulness participants (relative risk ratio = 2.22; 95% CI [1.01, 4.93]), though groups did not differ on eating disorder symptom change. Regarding secondary outcomes, BPT versus supportive mindfulness participants showed significantly lower dissonance about affirming the thin ideal at posttest and 6-month follow up (d = .38 and .32), body dissatisfaction at posttest and 6-month follow up (d = .62 and .62), negative affect at posttest and 6-month follow up (d = .49 and .48), and functional impairment (d = .36) at 6-month follow up; differences in thin-ideal internalization and abstinence from binge eating and compensatory behaviors were not significant.
conclusionsWhereas both treatments appeared effective, BPT produced larger effects and significantly greater remission of eating disorder diagnoses than a credible alternative treatment, which is very rare for trials that have compared active eating disorder treatments. Results suggest it would be useful to refine BPT and conduct target engagement research and efficacy trials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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