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Swedish Body Project for Prevention of Eating Disorders

NCT02567890 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 443

Last updated 2019-08-05

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Summary

Women in general and young girls in particular are constantly exposed to unhealthy body and appearance ideals through media that contribute to body dissatisfaction and unhealthy behaviors such as rigid dieting, which in interaction with genes and other factors increase the risk of developing eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The investigators aim is to investigate the extent to which an interactive prevention program, delivered through Internet, called the Swedish Body Project (sBody Project) can decrease the emergence of eating disorders among young females. The sBody Project is based on a "Dissonance-Based Intervention: (DBI)" that has shown very promising results. The adaptations and changes in the format of delivery accomplished in this study might help to disseminate the program on a broad basis, and consequently affect the health of young females on a much larger scale the ever before.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Internet-based DBI

Participants will go through a four week interactive program that will improve body acceptance. Includes some homework assignments and monitoring.

BEHAVIORAL

Expressive writing

Participants will be asked to reflect upon issues related to body image.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Linkoeping University

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Oregon Research Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • Karolinska Institutet

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ata Ghaderi, PhD · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
15 Years
Max Age
20 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2019-06-28
Completion
2019-06-28

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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