NCT03612661

Piloting a Novel Intuitive Eating Intervention for College Women With Disordered Eating

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 71 (actual)
• Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to pilot test a new intervention that helps young adult women learn adaptive eating and exercise strategies, increase their body acceptance, decrease unhealthy weight control behaviors and prevent future eating and problems. This intervention is experimental, and the study will test its feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness.

Detailed description

The intervention, Intuitive Eating, is an eating approach that addresses important risk factors and promotes adaptive eating attitudes and behaviors. It has three central tenets: 1) unconditional permission to eat when hungry, 2) eating for physical rather than emotional reasons, and 3) eating according to hunger and satiety cues. Intuitive Eating has ten principles that focus on rejecting the dieting mentality, honoring hunger cues, decreasing restrictive behaviors that lead to deprivation and bingeing, challenging rigid food rules, increasing awareness of satiety, discovering the satisfaction of food, coping with emotions without food, respecting and accepting one's body, using exercise as self-care, and balancing nutrition with satisfaction.

Conditions

• Disordered Eating Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Group Intervention	Participants in the group intervention will attend eight weekly, 90-minute sessions involving group activities and discussions. They will complete homework between sessions to reinforce learning. The intervention focuses on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.
BEHAVIORAL	Guided Self-Help	Participants in the GSH condition will follow the intuitive eating content through self-guided study, with eight weekly scheduled phone calls with an interventionist (\~20 minutes each). Interventionists will review homework assignments, answer questions, and reinforce adherence. The intervention materials are the same as the group and also focus on cultivating attunement to bodily sensations and fostering self-compassion to improve physical and mental health.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-09-14
• Primary completion: 2019-06-19
• Completion: 2019-06-19
• First posted: 2018-08-02
• Last updated: 2019-08-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States