ArticlePsicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS2019
A controlled trial of a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention program with Brazilian girls.
Article in Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04825184 (The Dove Self-Esteem Project), which is not on this map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Dove Self-Esteem Project: A Randomised Controlled Evaluation Assessing the Impact of a Body Image Chatbot on Brazilian Adolescents' Body Confidence
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Meta-analytic review of dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Intervention, participant, and facilitator features that predict larger effects.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
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- A randomized controlled trial to evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of two eating disorders prevention interventions: the HEIDI BP-HW project.BMC women's health · 2023Trial
- Using Chatbot Technology to Improve Brazilian Adolescents' Body Image and Mental Health at Scale: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Trial
- An experimental test of increasing implementation support for college peer educators delivering an evidence-based prevention program.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2023Trial
- Dissonance-based eating disorder prevention improves intuitive eating: a randomized controlled trial for Brazilian women with body dissatisfaction.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Trial
- Feasibility and effect of adding a concurrent parental component to a school-based wellness program using two modes of mobile-based technology - mixed methods evaluation of RCT.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- The Virtual-Body Project Reduces Eating Disorder Symptoms Among Young Adult Brazilian Women: A Pilot Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Impact of a Positive Body Image Program (Body Image Awareness Seminars) on the Positive and Negative Body Image of Individuals Living With Cancer.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
- Culturally adapted body image program for Mexican university women: feasibility, acceptability, and cultural relevance in a Pilot RCT protocol.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- School-based eating disorder prevention programmes and their impact on adolescent mental health: systematic review.BJPsych open · 2024Review
- Effectiveness of virtually delivered Body Project groups to prevent eating disorders in young women at risk: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Weight misperception and substance use: Brazilian Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA).BMC public health · 2022Article
- 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
- Improving body image at scale among Brazilian adolescents: study protocol for the co-creation and randomised trial evaluation of a chatbot intervention.BMC public health · 2021Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundGiven that most young women with eating disorders do not receive treatment, implementing effective prevention programs is a public health priority. The Body Project is a group-based eating disorder prevention program with evidence of both efficacy and effectiveness. This trial evaluated the efficacy of this prevention program with Brazilian girls, as no published study has tested whether this intervention is culturally sensitive and efficacious with Latin-American adolescents.
methodsFemale students were allocated to a dissonance-based intervention (n = 40) or assessment-only (n = 22) condition. The intervention was a dissonance-based program, consisted of four group sessions aimed to reduce thin-ideal internalization. The sessions included verbal, written, and behavioral exercises. The intervention group was evaluated at pretest and posttest; assessment-only controls completed measures at parallel times.
resultsCompared to assessment-only controls, intervention participants showed a significantly greater reduction in body dissatisfaction, sociocultural influence of the media, depressive symptoms, negative affect, as well as significantly greater increases in body appreciation. There were no significant effects for disordered eating attitudes and eating disorder symptoms.
conclusionsThese results suggest that this dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program was culturally sensitive, or at least culturally adaptive, and efficacious with Brazilian female adolescents. Indeed, the average effect size was slightly larger than has been observed in the large efficacy trial of this prevention program and in recent meta-analytic reviews.
trial registrationRBR-7prdf2 . Registered 13 August 2018 (retrospectively registered).
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