Evaluating whether a peer-led dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program prevents onset of each eating disorder type.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study tested whether the dissonance-based Body Project eating disorder prevention program reduced onset of subthreshold/threshold anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and purging disorder (PD) over long-term follow-up.

Methods

Data were combined from three prevention trials that targeted young women at high-risk for eating disorders (N = 1092; M age = 19.3). Participants were randomized to Body Project groups led by peer educators or expressive writing/educational controls and completed masked diagnostic interviews over 2- to 4-year follow-ups. Logistic regressions tested whether onset of each eating disorder over follow-up differed between Body Project and control participants.

Result

SUBMITTER: D'Adamo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10564960 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature