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Expand Your Horizon: An Online Writing Intervention for Women

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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)

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

Trial contacts and locations

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