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In the Mirror: Functional Appreciated Bodies (IM FAB)

NCT04118972 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 275

Last updated 2023-12-12

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The current project aims to examine the concept of promoting attention toward body functionality and gratitude using a weekly functionality-based mirror exposure and body functionality gratitude "journaling" text prompts three days a week for three weeks to examine whether this helps foster positive body image and decrease eating disorder symptoms in a sample of undergraduate females, a population at particularly high risk of body image dissatisfaction and consequent eating disorder development.

Conditions

  • Eating Disorder Symptom
  • Body Image Disturbance

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mirror exposure and text prompt responses

Participants in the active interventions have three weekly mirror exposure sessions that are either guided with specific instructions as to where to look and how (only in functionality condition)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University at Albany

    collaborator OTHER

  • Union College, New York

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • D. Catherine Walker · Union College

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-04-01
Primary Completion
2021-07-01
Completion
2021-12-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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