NCT03541824

Reducing Suicide Risk Associated With Weight Loss

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 59 (actual)
• Sponsor: Florida State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of an intervention aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle and reducing risk factors associated with eating pathology, nonsuicidal self-injury, and suicidal behavior. We are also interested in assessing whether this intervention has the potential to prevent future symptoms of eating problems and self-harm urges and behaviors. The broader goal of this research is to identify factors that may help us better understand the prevention of self-harm behaviors and develop more effective treatments for these problems.

Detailed description

The current study was designed as a proof-of-concept study to test the association between weight suppression (WS; difference between one's highest and lowest weight) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). Previous research has found an association between current WS and lifetime NSSI and that this association was mediated by depressive symptoms and drive for thinness. The current study therefore modified an existing online cognitive dissonance-based program (the e-Body Project) using mixed gender content (from the Body Project 4 All scripts) to target posited mediators, i.e., depressive symptoms and weight and shape concerns, in a sample of individuals with WS and engagement in current NSSI.

Conditions

• Eating Behavior
• Self Harm
• Weight Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Body Acceptance Program	The Body Acceptance Program is a mixed-gender modification of the eBody Project, an online intervention in which cognitive dissonance principals are used to reduce eating pathology.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-20
• Completion: 2017-03-20
• First posted: 2018-05-31
• Last updated: 2018-05-31