Searching for Meaning: A Study Examining the Effect of a Meaning-centered Intervention
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 166
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Meaning in life
研究概览
简要总结
Female participants with weight and shape concerns will either receive a six-week meaning-centered intervention led by a trainer or be allocated to a waitlist condition. They will receive the same questionnaires at three time points: Before the intervention, immediately after, and four weeks later.
The researchers hypothesize that a meaning-centered intervention for young women with weight and shape issues will increase participants meaning in life and decrease their eating disorder symptoms immediately after the intervention and at 4-week follow-up when compared to a waitlist condition.
详细描述
Female first-year psychology students at the University of Groningen will be screened for weight and shape concerns. Those scoring in the clinically relevant range will be invited to participate in the study. After filling out the baseline measures online, the participants will be randomly allocated to a waitlist or an intervention condition. Participants in the intervention condition will follow a weekly 1-hour online intervention with a trainer for six weeks, including homework assignments. In this intervention, the aim is to increase meaning in life and decrease eating disorder symptoms. All study materials will be offered in English, Dutch, or German. Immediately after the intervention and four weeks later, the participants will receive the same questionnaires again as at baseline. The waitlist participants will not receive any intervention during the six-week period between baseline and post-assessment, but receive the same questionnaires in the same timeframe. Waitlist participants will also have the option to receive the intervention after the study has been finished.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 35 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •When screened with the Weight Concerns Scale (WCS; Killen et al., 1994) and when scores of all five items were adjusted to equal a maximum score of 20, leading to a total range between 0 and 100 (cf. Jacobi et al., 2004), participant are eligible if they answer "always" or "often" to the item "Do you ever feel fat?" or have a total score ≥ 47 on the WCS or both
排除标准
- •Current treatment for eating disorder
- •not fluent in English, Dutch, or German
研究组 & 干预措施
Meaning-centered intervention condition
The group of participants receiving the meaning-centered intervention
干预措施: A meaning-centered intervention for young women with weight and shape concerns (Behavioral)
Waitlist control condition
The group of participants not receiving an intervention
结局指标
主要结局
Meaning in life
时间窗: Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11)
Presence of meaning in life subscale of Meaning in Life Questionnaire (Steger et al., 2006); average of 5 items with 7-point Likert scale (minimum: 1; maximum 7); the higher the score, the higher the presence of life meaning
次要结局
- Tripartite domain of meaning in life: Mattering(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Depressive symptoms(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Stress symptoms(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Eating disorder symptoms(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Tripartite domain of meaning in life: Purpose(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Tripartite domain of meaning in life: Comprehension(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Internalizing symptoms(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))
- Anxiety symptoms(Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11))