The Peer-Delivered Body Project for Young Women in High School

University of Colorado Boulder (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Eating Disorders in Adolescence

Treatments: Behavioral: The Body Project

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04263155

18-0007-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the impact of the Body Project (a dissonance-based program designed to address body image concerns and prevent eating disorders) on key eating disorder risk factors and relevant social and self-constructs at three time-points (pre, post, and one-year follow-up). Young women will be recruited from two high schools and will be randomized to receive the Body Project or to the control group. The Body Project will be facilitated by college-aged women.

Full description

Preventive models that can avert the onset of eating disorders and innovative delivery methods that increase engagement with care offer a promising approach to improving the mental health and wellness of young women. This study aims to implement and evaluate the Body Project, a 4-hour dissonance-based program designed to address body image concerns and prevent eating disorders with high school young women using a peer delivery model. This study will evaluate the impact of the Body Project on key eating disorder risk factors and relevant social and self-constructs at three time-points (pre, post, and one-year follow-up). Young women will be recruited from two high schools and will be randomized to receive the Body Project program or to the control group. The Body Project will be facilitated by college-aged young women who have been trained to deliver the Body Project.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female high school student

Exclusion criteria

• Previous participation in the Body Project program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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74 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: The Body Project for high school young women

Experimental group

Description:

The 4-hour Body Project workshop delivered by trained peer leaders

Treatment:

Behavioral: The Body Project

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The business-as-usual comparison group does not participate in the Body Project but may engage in any other programs or services they normally would