An experimental test of increasing implementation support for college peer educators delivering an evidence-based prevention program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

College students are at particularly high risk for mental health problems, such as eating disorders, which are associated with functional impairment, distress, and morbidity, but barriers limit implementation of evidence-based interventions at colleges. We evaluated the effectiveness and implementation quality of a peer educator (PE) delivered eating disorder prevention program (the Body Project [BP]), which has a broad evidence-based using a train-the-trainer (TTT) approach and experimentally evaluated three levels of implementation support.

Method

We recruited 63 colleges with peer educator programs and randomly assigned them to (a) receive a 2-day TTT training in which peer educators were trained to implement the Body Project and supervisors

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10175139 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature