Effectiveness of the Body Project eating disorder prevention program for different racial and ethnic groups and an evaluation of the potential benefits of ethnic matching.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Provide an adequately powered tests of whether a group-delivered dissonance-based eating disorder prevention program (Body Project) is similarly effective for different racial and ethnic groups and evaluate whether an improved match between minority participant race/ethnicity and fellow group members is associated with larger effects.

Method

Study 1 examined data from 539 young women from seven high schools and four universities and Study 2 examined data from 1,195 young women and men from 50 universities who completed the Body Project, focusing on pretest-to-posttest reductions in outcomes.

Results

In Study 1, reductions in thin-ideal internalization, body dissatisfaction, dieting, negative affect, and eating disorder symptoms did not significantly differ f

SUBMITTER: Stice E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9422777 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature