The Effectiveness of an Eating Disorders Prevention Program for Young Women in Saudi Arabia

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Eating Disorder Symptom and Body Image Dissatisfaction

• Registration Number: NCT05071521
• Lead Sponsor: University of Sheffield

Brief Summary

The trial is a randomized control trial about the effective of an eating disorders prevention programmer for young Saudi women.

The prevention program is title The Body Project. Participants will be Saudi undergraduates from Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University. Sample size is 64 participants. They will be divided randomly to two groups, each group has 32 participants. The first group is the intervention group where the prevention program will be provided. The second group will be the control group where healthy eating education material will be provided. The outcomes will be measured with adapted tools to local culture at three points (pre, post and 3 month follow-up).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2020-10
• Study Start: 2020-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2021-03-07
• Study Completion: 2021-03-07
• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-17
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-27
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-08
• Last Update Posted: 2021-10-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 92

Inclusion Criteria

undergraduate Saudi female

Exclusion Criteria

undergraduate Saudi female with eating disorders

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q, version 6.0).	5 months	The EDE-Q is a widely used self-report measure of eating disorder psychopathology (Fairburn \& Beglin, 2008). It contains 28 items investigating eating disorder behaviours and attitudes during the past 28 days. It includes four subscales: dietary restraint; eating concerns; weight concerns; and shape concerns. The Global EDE-Q score (mean of the four attitudinal scores) and the scores of each subscales were used in this study. Higher scores indicate greater eating pathology. The scale was applied before and after the programme to assess outcomes.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-8C).	5 months	Body image dissatisfactions was measured using the BSQ-8C, which is a short version of the full Body Shape Questionnaire (Evans \& Dolan, 1993). A higher score indicates higher levels of body image dissatisfaction. The scale was applied before and after the programme to assess outcomes
Brief Version of the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE).	5 months	The BFNE (Leary, 1983) measures anxiety related to perceived negative evaluation. A high score shows higher levels of social anxiety. The scale was applied before and after the programme to assess outcomes.
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).	5 months	Depression was assessed with the PHQ-9 (Löwe et al., 2004), which measures the severity of depression over the past two weeks. Higher scores indicate greater levels of depression. The scale was applied before and after the programme to assess outcomes.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University; 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia