Preventing Eating Disorders by Improving Mental Health Literacy in Chinese Adolescents

Peking University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorders; Mental Health Literacy

Treatments: Behavioral: MHL intervention; Behavioral: Waiting list

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05428046

MHL-ED

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mental health literacy (MHL) is necessary for the prevention, detection, and treatment of eating disorders, whereas the MHL about eating disorders is inadequate in China. Thus, the current study aimed to improve the MHL for eating disorders among Chinese adolescents via a brief online intervention.

Enrollment: 1,395 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Middle school students

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,395 participants in 2 patient groups

MHL intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Mental health literacy intervention for eating disorder

Treatment:

Behavioral: MHL intervention

Waiting list

Other group

Description:

The waiting list group received MHL intervention at the end of 12 weeks follow-up assessment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Waiting list