NCT06610318

Feasibility and Acceptability of a Single Session of Imagery Rescripting in a Community Sample of Adults

Brief Strategies for Improving Health Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Oregon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Negative experiences related to eating and appearance (NEREAs), such as critical commentary from parents about food, are common. They are also associated with depression and disordered eating, predictors of early mortality. Imagery rescripting (IR) is a therapeutic process during which individuals are guided through recalling distressing memories, like NEREAs, and generating ideas for bringing support into these memories. Single sessions of IR demonstrate promise in shifting the primary negative consequences of NEREAs in clinical samples of women. The current study examined the feasibility and acceptability of a remote-delivered, single session of IR in a community sample of men and women with NEREAs.

Conditions

• Feasibility Studies
• Acceptability
• Depressive Symptoms
• Disordered Eating Behaviors

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	imagery rescripting	This condition has three stages. In the first stage, participants were asked to select their most distressing memory related to their appearance (not physical or sexual trauma). They were asked to visualize the selected memory, in detail, as if it were happening to them again. Then, interventionists used a downward arrow technique to identify two-to-three maladaptive core schema. In the second stage, participants were asked to identify a real or imagined trusted adult. Then, they were asked to imagine what their younger self might need to cope with or feel calmer in the situation of their selected memory. In the third stage, the participant was instructed to imagine asking the trusted adult for what they need and to imagine the trusted adult providing their selected interventions and describe how they feel afterwards. These procedures were then repeated with participants' most distressing memory related to eating. This session was remote delivered via Zoom.
BEHAVIORAL	nutrition education	The active control condition consisted of a time- and attention-matched general nutrition education session. The curriculum for this intervention included information from the United States Department of Agriculture's Dietary Guidelines (e.g., food labels, describing the benefits of macronutrients). This session was remote delivered using Zoom.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-06-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-06
• Completion: 2024-06-01
• First posted: 2024-09-24
• Last updated: 2024-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States