Clinician-led, peer-led, and internet-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention programs: Effectiveness of these delivery modalities through 4-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Independent trials have found that the dissonance-based Body Project eating disorder prevention program is efficacious and effective; the present trial provided the first test of whether delivery could be task-shifted from clinician-delivery to peer educator-delivery or Internet-delivery without loss of effectiveness through 4-year follow-up.

Method

Young women at high-risk for eating disorders because of body image concerns (N = 680, Mage = 22.2) recruited at 3 colleges were randomized to clinician-led Body Project groups, peer-led Body Project groups, the Internet-based eBody Project, or educational video control.

Results

Participants in clinician- and peer-led Body Project groups and the eBody Project generally showed larger reductions in risk factors and

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810349 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature