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General and program-specific moderators of two eating disorder prevention programs.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate general and program-specific factors hypothesized to moderate the effects of two eating disorder prevention programs. METHOD: High-risk adolescent girls (N = 481; M age = 17) were randomized to a dissonance-based thin-ideal internalization reduction program, a healthy weight management program, an expressive-writing control condition, or an assessment-only control condition. Participants completed diagnostic interviews and surveys at pretest, post-test, 6-month follow-up, and 12-month follow-up. RESULTS: Dissonance program effects on bulimic symptoms were stronger for participants with initial elevations in body image distress, bulimic symptoms, and thin-ideal internalization. Healthy weight program effects on bulimic symptoms were stronger for adolescents with initial elevations in body image distress, bulimic symptoms, readiness to change, body mass, and emotional eating. CONCLUSION: Overall, intervention effects tended to be amplified for high-risk versus low-risk adolescents. However, certain moderator effects appeared to be specific to the two different prevention programs.
Author information
Author/s: Stice, Eric (E); Marti, Nathan (N); Shaw, Heather (H); O'Neil, Kelly (K);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA. estice(-atsign-)ori.org
Grants: DK061957 (Agency:NIDDK NIH HHS) ; MH-70699 (Agency:NIMH NIH HHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Journal: The International journal of eating disorders (Int J Eat Disord), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2008-Nov; vol 41 (issue 7) : pp 611-7
Dates: Created 2008/10/31; Completed 2009/02/19;
PMID: 18528875, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 3/9/2009, IMS Date: 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00)
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