NCT04529746

Pilot Evaluation of the EVERYbody Project

A Pilot Evaluation of the EVERYbody Project: Professionally-delivered Inclusive Eating Disorder Risk Factor Reduction for College Students

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 98 (actual)
• Sponsor: Western Washington University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A pilot randomized-controlled trial explored the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of an inclusive dissonance-based body image intervention called the EVERYbody Project. The professionally delivered EVERYbody Project was evaluated in a universal college student population compared to a waitlist control group through one-month follow-up.

Detailed description

An existing dissonance-based body image program (the Body Project; Stice, Shaw, Burton, \& Wade, 2006) was adapted to directly discuss diversity within cultural appearance ideals (including race, gender identity, sexuality, ability, and age) and the individual and collective impact of pursuing exclusive appearance norms. The feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of the EVERYbody Project was assessed in an initial randomized-controlled trial. College students within a university in the Pacific Northwest United States were invited to participate in programming (universal intervention target). Professional delivery of the two-session EVERYbody Project was compared to a waitlist control condition. Intervention groups were facilitated by one "expert" (faculty or staff with body image expertise) and two college student co-facilitators. Mixed methods assessment included a comparison of changes in quantitative eating disorder risk factor outcomes across randomization conditions and among students with marginalized identities at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and one-month follow-up. Qualitative interviews assessed the impact of the program on participants with marginalized identities. Feasibility and acceptability of the program was assessed to evaluate the appropriateness of the EVERYbody Project within universal college student audiences.

Conditions

• Body Image
• Eating Disorder Symptom

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	EVERYbody Project	Brief behavioral intervention (4 hours across two meetings)

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-09-01
• Completion: 2017-09-01
• First posted: 2020-08-28
• Last updated: 2021-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States