Targeted prevention of excess weight gain and eating disorders in high-risk adolescent girls: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high prevalence and incidence of obesity and eating disorders in US adolescent girls are serious health problems. Because of the shared risk factors for obesity and eating disorders, a targeted prevention of both conditions is a priority.

Objective

We determined whether an adapted interpersonal psychotherapy prevention program is more efficacious for reducing excess weight gain and worsening disordered eating than health education in adolescent girls at high risk of obesity and eating disorders.

Design

A parallel-group, randomized controlled trial was conducted between September 2008 and January 2013 in a university-based laboratory and a federal research hospital. The study included 113 adolescent (12-17-y-old) girls deemed at high risk of adult obesit

SUBMITTER: Tanofsky-Kraff M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4163791 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature