Implementation factors that predict larger effects from a peer educator delivered eating disorder prevention program at universities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Identify implementation factors, including intervention, facilitator, participant, and college factors, that were associated with larger reductions in eating disorder symptoms for undergraduates who completed a dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program delivered by peer educators in an implementation support trial. The goal was to determine how to maximize the effects of this prevention program in future implementation efforts.

Method

We recruited 63 universities with peer educator programs and randomly assigned them to three levels of implementation support for delivery of an evidence-based eating disorder prevention program (the Body Project). The present report investigated whether several intervention, facilitator, participant, and college char

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10023428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature