Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2021
Enhancing efficacy of a dissonance-based obesity and eating disorder prevention program: Experimental therapeutics.
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- Pooled it
- A preliminary randomized trial of a brief dissonance-based type 2 diabetes prevention programme for adults with pre-diabetes.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2025Trial
- Enhancing Efficacy of a Brief Obesity and Eating Disorder Prevention Program: Long-Term Results from an Experimental Therapeutics Trial.Nutrients · 2023Trial
- Efficacy of a food response and attention training treatment for obesity: A randomized placebo controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2022Trial
- "You Say Cognitive, I Say Cognitive": Can Misinformation-Informed Interventions Help Reduce Risk for Disordered Eating in Youth?The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Efficacy of a Web-Based Executive Function Training Program to Induce Healthier Food Choices and Increase Valuation of Fruits and Vegetables in Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Exploring the perspectives of older adults who are pre-frail and frail to identify interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour and improve mobility: a thematic content analysis.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Relation of BOLD response to food-specific and generic motor response inhibition tasks to body fat gain in adults with overweight and obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Contextualizing the Neural Vulnerabilities Model of Obesity.Nutrients · 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
- Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2022Article
- Neural Vulnerability Factors That Predict Future Weight Gain.Current obesity reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectiveTest the hypothesis that the efficacy of a dissonance-based obesity/eating disorder prevention program, Project Health, could be enhanced by implementing it in single-sex groups and adding food response inhibition and attention training.
methodUsing a 2 × 2 factorial design, young adults (N = 261; Mage = 19.3, 79% female; 64% White) were randomized to (a) single-sex or (b) mixed-sex groups that completed food response inhibition and attention training or (c) single-sex or (d) mixed-sex groups that completed generic response inhibition and attention training with nonfood images. Preregistered primary outcomes (body fat, Body Mass Index [BMI]), eating disorder symptoms and other outcomes were assessed at pretest and posttest.
resultsFor one preregistered primary outcome, body fat loss, there was a significant interaction between the two manipulated factors (d = -.28), as well as significant main effects for sex composition of groups (d = -.18) and food response inhibition and attention training (d = -0.17), with the largest body fat loss occurring for single-sex groups implemented with food response inhibition and attention training. Although the two manipulated factors did not significantly affect the other outcomes (including BMI, the other preregistered primary outcome), there was a significant reduction in eating disorder symptoms across the conditions (within participant d = -.78), converging with prior evidence that Project Health produced larger reductions in symptoms than educational control participants.
conclusionsResults suggest that implementing Project Health in single-sex groups with food response inhibition and attention training produced the largest body fat loss effects, as well as significant reductions in eating disorder symptoms, suggesting that efforts to disseminate this prevention program are warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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