Effectiveness of the Body Project eating disorder prevention program for different racial and ethnic groups and an evaluation of the potential benefits of ethnic matching.

2021 ◽  
Vol 89 (12) ◽  
pp. 1007-1019
Author(s):  
Eric Stice ◽  
Z. Ayotola Onipede ◽  
Heather Shaw ◽  
Paul Rohde ◽  
Jeff M. Gau
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethnic Matching ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Disorder Prevention

The Body Project

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Stice ◽  
Paul Rohde ◽  
Heather Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Ideal ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Disorder Prevention

The Body Project is an empirically based eating disorder prevention program that offers young women an opportunity to critically consider the costs of pursuing the ultra-thin ideal promoted in the mass media, and it improves body acceptance and reduces risk for developing eating disorders. Young women with elevated body dissatisfaction are recruited for group sessions in which they participate in a series of verbal, written, and behavioral exercises in which they consider the negative effects of pursuing the thin-ideal. This online resource provides information on the significance of body image and eating disorders, the intervention theory, the evidence base which supports the theory, recruitment and training procedures, solutions to common challenges, and a new program aimed at reducing obesity onset, as well as intervention scripts and participant handouts. It is the only currently available eating disorder prevention program that has been shown to reduce risk for onset of eating disorders and received support in trials conducted by several independent research groups.

Evidence Base for the Body Project and Related Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Programs

2012 ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Eric Stice ◽  
Paul Rohde ◽  
Heather Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
The Body ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Trained Staff ◽  
Disorder Prevention

The Body Project has produced intervention effects for eating disorder risk factors and symptoms in eight independent research groups. It is the only eating disorder prevention program that has met the criteria necessary for an intervention to be considered efficacious by the APA. Positive effects of this intervention have resulted when delivered by research-trained staff, existing providers (e.g., health educators), and undergraduate students suggesting that it can be disseminated by a variety of providers. Perhaps most importantly, the Body Project has been shown to produce a 60% reduction in the incidence of eating disorders over a three-year follow-up period.

Dissonance-based eating disorder prevention among Brazilian young women: A randomized efficacy trial of the Body Project

Body Image ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Tassiana Aparecida Hudson ◽  
Ana Carolina Soares Amaral ◽  
Eric Stice ◽  
Jeff Gau ◽  
Maria Elisa Caputo Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Young Women ◽  
The Body ◽  
Efficacy Trial ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Disorder Prevention

Dissonance-Based Obesity/Eating Disorder Prevention Program

2012 ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Stice ◽  
Paul Rohde ◽  
Heather Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
The Body ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Eating Disorder Prevention ◽  
Body Project ◽  
Obesity Prevention Programs ◽  
Disorder Prevention ◽  
Obesity Prevention Program

Project Health is a relatively new dissonance-based obesity prevention program that can be easily and inexpensively disseminated. Project Health borrows some successful ideas from the Body Project, incorporating dissonance induction techniques to prompt young women and men to make small incremental and sustainable changes to their diets and physical activity. Because obesity is a national epidemic, with an estimated 65% of US adults either overweight or obese, increased attention is being paid to this prevention focus. Large randomized trials are needed to assess whether this program significantly reduces increases in BMI and the incidence of obesity, which have been elusive outcomes for most obesity prevention programs.

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