BABE(Body Appreciation and Better Eating), Add Some Self-compassion

University of South Carolina

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Eating Behavior; Body Image; Binge Eating; Disordered Eating; Nutrition, Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05786560

Pro00120545

Details and patient eligibility

About

Body dissatisfaction is most common among girls in their teenage years and young adulthood, this is also around the time where the risk of developing binge eating disorder is the highest. Black/African American girls are more likely to engage in binge eating behaviors compared to their White American counterparts; however, they receive less help for eating issues. Further, increase rates of obesity in the Black/African American population may indicate that binge eating may be a bigger problem for this population than discussed. Therefore, the primary purpose of this randomized controlled pilot is to assess the feasibility of this pilot study to be used in a large scale fully-powered study. The secondary purpose of this study is to assess if two different nutrition and body image programs elicit positive outcomes among Black/African American teenage girls who indicate a desire to improve body image.

Enrollment: 13 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female
• Black (Afro-Latina)/African American teenage girls
• Age 13 to 18 years old
• Attend high school in the United States
• Interest in nutrition

Exclusion criteria

• Eating disorder diagnosis
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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13 participants in 2 patient groups

Body image + nutrition education +self-compassion

Experimental group

Description:

For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for about 30 minutes, then will be given about a 30 minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. The nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The three self-compassion constructs will be targeted in the following ways: (1) Mindfulness will involve bringing awareness to feelings and emotions about a time during the week where participants ate a food lower in nutritional value. (2) Common Humanity involves finding ways in which their experience connects to others and acknowledging that being human comes with imperfections. (3) Self-Kindness will involve having girls speak kind and understanding words to themselves as it relates to their eating-related downfall of the week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)

Body image + nutrition education

Active Comparator group

Description:

For the control arm, participants will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class, then participants will be given a 30-minute nutrition education lesson. The nutrition lesson plans will have no components of self-compassion intertwined within the lesson, but the nutrition content will be the same as the treatment group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)