The Effectiveness of an Eating Disorders Prevention Program for Young Women in Saudi Arabia

University of Sheffield

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorder Symptom and Body Image Dissatisfaction

Treatments: Other: The Body Project: A Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05071521

PNU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The trial is a randomized control trial about the effective of an eating disorders prevention programmer for young Saudi women.

The prevention program is title The Body Project. Participants will be Saudi undergraduates from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University. Sample size is 64 participants. They will be divided randomly to two groups, each group has 32 participants. The first group is the intervention group where the prevention program will be provided. The second group will be the control group where healthy eating education material will be provided. The outcomes will be measured with adapted tools to local culture at three points (pre, post and 3 month follow-up).

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 16 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

undergraduate Saudi female

Exclusion criteria

undergraduate Saudi female with eating disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

Eating disorders prevention

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Body Project. The Body Project is a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention programme. It is a manualised evidence-based programme that targets eating pathology and body image dissatisfaction in young women. The objective of the programme is to create cognitive dissonance to encourage participants to decrease pursuing ideal-thinness. It includes group discussion, written and behavioural exercises and role-play to achieve cognitive dissonance (Stice, Rohde, \& Shaw, 2013). It involves four group sessions for an hour each in consecutive weeks. At the beginning of each meeting, the facilitator reinforces voluntary commitment. Homework is explained and given at the end of each meeting and reviewed at the beginning of the following meeting. References: Stice, E., Rohde, P., Shaw, H. (2013). The body project a dissonance-based eating disorders prevention intervention (updated edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Treatment:

Other: The Body Project: A Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Intervention

Healthy eating education

Sham Comparator group

Description:

The control group were asked to read educational material in Arabic about healthy nutrition and active lifestyle from the Saudi branch of the World Obesity Federation (Kayl Association for Combatting Obesity, 2021). The material includes information about body mass index; easy ways to measure food units without a scale; benefits of working out; means to adopt healthier daily habits; and healthier food alternatives. The material was chosen because it was designed to be easy to understand by any individual. References: Kayl Association for Combatting Obesity. (2021). Kayl association for combatting obesity. Retrieved from https://www.kayl.org.sa

Treatment:

Other: The Body Project: A Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Intervention