Expand Your Horizon: An Online Writing Intervention for Women

Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Image

Treatments: Behavioral: writing creatively program; Behavioral: body acceptance program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04146792

HM20016491

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to test a new writing-based intervention that helps young adult women increase their body acceptance and fosters creativity.

Full description

In this study, participants will be asked to do the following things:

1. Complete 3 writing exercises over the course of week. Each writing exercise will take approximately 15 minutes to complete
2. ~1-hour long online surveys immediately after the program (1 week), and 1 week after the program. Questions will ask about eating behaviors and attitudes, body image, feelings of weight stigma, and mental health.
3. Be contacted through email to remind participants to complete the writing assignments/survey

Enrollment: 163 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women ages 18 to 25 years
• enrolled in postsecondary education at VCU
• endorse some degree of WBI (as measured by the WBI-M) or body image concerns

Exclusion criteria

• men
• pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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163 participants in 2 patient groups

body acceptance program

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: body acceptance program

writing creativity program

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: writing creatively program