Clinician-led, peer-led, and internet-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Acute effectiveness of these delivery modalities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Because independent trials have provided evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of the dissonance-based Body Project eating disorder prevention program, the present trial tested whether clinicians produce the largest intervention effects, or whether delivery can be task-shifted to less expensive undergraduate peer educators or to Internet delivery without effect size attenuation, focusing on acute effects.

Method

In this study, 680 young women (M_age = 22.2 years, SD = 7.1) recruited at colleges in 2 states were randomized to clinician-led Body Project groups, peer-led Body Project groups, the Internet-based eBody Project, or an educational video control condition.

Results

Participants in all 3 variants of the Body Project intervention showed

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5578897 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature