Dissonance and healthy weight eating disorder prevention programs: a randomized efficacy trial.

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In this trial, adolescent girls with body dissatisfaction (N = 481, M age = 17 years) were randomized to an eating disorder prevention program involving dissonance-inducing activities that reduce thin-ideal internalization, a prevention program promoting healthy weight management, an expressive writing control condition, or an assessment-only control condition. Dissonance participants showed significantly greater reductions in eating disorder risk factors and bulimic symptoms than healthy weight, expressive writing, and assessment-only participants, and healthy weight participants showed significantly greater reductions in risk factors and symptoms than expressive writing and assessment-only participants from pretest to posttest. Although these effects faded over 6-month and 12-month follow-ups, dissonance and healthy weight participants showed significantly lower binge eating and obesity onset and reduced service utilization through 12-month follow-up, suggesting that both interventions have public health potential. Copyright 2006 APA

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Author/s: Stice, Eric (E); Shaw, Heather (H); Burton, Emily (E); Wade, Emily (E);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. estice(-atsign-)ori.org

Grants: F31 MH064254-01A1 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; F31 MH064254-02 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; F31 MH064254-03 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; F31 MH064254-04 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; K01 MH001708-02 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; K01 MH001708-03 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; K01 MH001708-04 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; K01 MH001708-05 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH/DK6195 (Agency:NIDDK NIH HHS) ; MH01708 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH64254 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; MH70699 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-01 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-02 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-03 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-04 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-04S1 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH061957-05 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS) ; R01 MH070699-01A1 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Journal: Journal of consulting and clinical psychology (J Consult Clin Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Apr; vol 74 (issue 2) : pp 263-75

Dates: Created 2006/05/02; Completed 2006/06/28; Revised 2008/11/20;

PMID: 16649871, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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