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NCT Number: NCT04517942

Evaluation of Peer-led EVERYbody Project

The second trial of the EVERYbody Project explored the efficacy of the inclusive body image intervention when delivered by college peer leaders. The peer-facilitated EVERYbody Project was compared to a video and expressive writing comparison intervention through one-month follow-up.

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Key information

Conditions

Body Image Eating Disorder Symptom

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Western Washington University

Bellingham, Washington, 98225, United States

About this study

The initial trial of the EVERYbody Project established that professional leaders could deliver a universal, inclusive body image program for college students, with benefit above and beyond a waitlist control condition. The second trial of the EVERYbody Project aimed to further evaluate the intervention using a more disseminable facilitator model: trained college student peer leaders. It also utilized a more rigorous comparison condition, where peer leaders conducted the two-session EVERYbody Project program or a time-matched video and expressive writing intervention. College students within a university in the Pacific Northwest United States were invited to participate in programming (universal intervention target). Quantitative assessment included a comparison of changes in eating disorder risk factor outcomes across randomization conditions at pre- and post-intervention and one-month follow-up. Feasibility and acceptability explored the impact of the peer delivered program within universal college student audiences.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Current college student enrolled at institution where research was taking place

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Treatment and study plan

EVERYbody Project

Behavioral

Brief behavioral intervention (4 hours across two meetings)

Video + Expressive Writing

Other

Brief video-based intervention (4 hours across two meetings)

Primary outcomes

  1. Eating disorder symptoms

    Time frame: Assessed at baseline (Survey 1), post-intervention (Survey 2), and one-month follow-up (Survey 3)

    Eating disorder symptoms were assessed with the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDEQ; Fairburn & Beglin, 1994). The Global score of the EDEQ was used in this study (average across all 28 items).

  2. Body dissatisfaction

    Time frame: Assessed at baseline (Survey 1), post-intervention (Survey 2), and one-month follow-up (Survey 3)

    The Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction with Body Parts Scale (SDBPS; Berscheid, Walster, & Bohrnstedt, 1973) assessed satisfaction and dissatisfaction with nine parts of the body that are commonly endorsed as concerning (e.g., stomach, thighs, hips). The average score was used in this study (average across all 9 items).

  3. Internalized cultural appearance norms

    Time frame: Assessed at baseline (Survey 1), following intervention Session 1 (Survey 1.B), post-intervention (Survey 2), and one-month follow-up (Survey 3)

    The two Internalization subscales of the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4; Schaefer et al., 2015) assess internalized cultural messages surrounding appearance and attractiveness. The two internalization subscales were combined for this study (average across all 10 items), following prior research by Kilpela et al. (2016). This survey was assessed at all outcome time points (Survey 1, 2, and 3), plus midway through the intervention (following Session 1 of the program).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Negative affect

    Time frame: Assessed at baseline (Survey 1), post-intervention (Survey 2), and one-month follow-up (Survey 3)

    Negative affect was assessed with 20 items from the fear, guilt, and sadness subscales of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Revised (PANAS-X; Watson & Clark, 1992). The average of all 20 items was used in this study.

Other outcomes

  1. Program satisfaction and application

    Time frame: Assessed at post-intervention (Survey 2) and one-month follow-up (Survey 3).

    A series of feedback questions were used to gauge satisfaction with the EVERYbody Project (based on Ciao et al., 2015). These questions included four Likert scale items about enjoyment (e.g., "I enjoyed the EVERYbody Project") rated from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) as well as open-ended questions (e.g., "Was any part of the EVERYbody Project particularly helpful/useful? If so, which part and why?") These questions were administered immediately following participation in the EVERYbody Project as a part of the post-intervention survey (Survey 2).

    At post-intervention (Survey 2) and one-month follow-up (Survey 3), three questions gauged application of information learned in the program (e.g., "How often do think about the things you learned in the EVERYbody Project?" rated on a scale from 1 (not at all) to 5 (all the time).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Western Washington University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

An Evaluation of the Peer-delivered EVERYbody Project: Eating Disorder Risk Factor Reduction for College Students

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2018
Study completion
2018
First posted
Aug 19, 2020
Registry last updated
Aug 12, 2021

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