ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2025
Open Pilot Trial of a Coached Digital Program for Lower-Income Adults With Eating Disorders.
Article in The International journal of eating disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Open Pilot Trial of a Coached Digital Program for Lower-Income Adults With Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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objectiveThis study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of the first digital intervention tailored for lower-income adults with eating disorders, who are poorly served by the public health care system.
methodAdults (N = 30) with public insurance or without insurance coverage who endorsed ≥ 6 binge eating episodes, ≥ 6 vomiting episodes, and/or ≥ 6 laxative/diuretic episodes in the past three months with a body mass index ≥ 18.5 kg/m
resultsAlmost all participants (93.3%, n = 28) accessed the program after enrollment, completing about half (M = 4.15, SD = 2.68) of the 8 sessions and sending an average of 32.5 (SD = 35.2) texts to their coach over three months. From pre- to post-intervention, there were large improvements in eating disorder psychopathology (d = 0.79, p < 0.001) and moderate decreases in binge eating (d = 0.62, p = 0.003) and self-induced vomiting episodes (d = 0.43, p = 0.031). There were also large improvements in clinical impairment (d = 0.83, p < 0.001) and moderate to large reductions in anxiety (d = 0.47, p = 0.019) and depression (d = 0.84, p < 0.001). Most participants indicated that they were somewhat to very satisfied with the program (67.9%, n = 19). DISCUSSION: The results from this pilot trial testing a brief online guided self-help intervention are promising, with relatively high treatment engagement, indicating good feasibility and acceptability and signals of preliminary effectiveness. Future research is needed to examine longer-term effectiveness relative to other active treatments or waitlist control.
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