NCT05786560

BABE(Body Appreciation and Better Eating), Add Some Self-compassion

BABE(Body Appreciation and Better Eating), Add Some Self-compassion: a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study for Black/African American High School Teenage Girls

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 13 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Carolina · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 13 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Body dissatisfaction is most common among girls in their teenage years and young adulthood, this is also around the time where the risk of developing binge eating disorder is the highest. Black/African American girls are more likely to engage in binge eating behaviors compared to their White American counterparts; however, they receive less help for eating issues. Further, increase rates of obesity in the Black/African American population may indicate that binge eating may be a bigger problem for this population than discussed. Therefore, the primary purpose of this randomized controlled pilot is to assess the feasibility of this pilot study to be used in a large scale fully-powered study. The secondary purpose of this study is to assess if two different nutrition and body image programs elicit positive outcomes among Black/African American teenage girls who indicate a desire to improve body image.

Conditions

• Body Image
• Eating Behavior
• Binge Eating
• Nutrition, Healthy
• Disordered Eating

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	BABE (Body Appreciation and Better Eating)	The participants will be randomized into either a treatment or control group. For the treatment arm, girls will participate in the Body Project for 30 minutes, then will be given a 30-minute self-compassion-based nutrition education lesson. Nutrition topics will cover the basic biochemistry of nutrition, nutrition needs for teenage girls, and ways to find balance in eating, framed in the constructs of self-compassion. The control group will receive the same 30-minute Body Project class and the same 30-minute nutrition education class; however, there will be no incorporation of self-compassion.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-09
• Primary completion: 2023-04-15
• Completion: 2023-08-15
• First posted: 2023-03-27
• Last updated: 2023-05-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States