StudentBodies™BED (USA)

Description:

The StudentBodies-BED intervention is a 16-week program for adolescents that combines cognitive behavioural principles for binge eating disorders with a psychoeducational approach to weight loss. The program includes self monitoring activities, goal-setting, stimulus control, appetite awareness and emotion regulation skills. The main aims are to reduce binge eating, maintain weight, increase healthy eating, increase physical activity and reduce sedentary activities. The program contains a moderated discussion group, online journals for food, activity and weight monitoring, and a weekly newsletter.

Service URL:

http://bml.stanford.edu/research_proj/index_new.html

Agency Responsible:

Behavioral Medicine Multimedia Laboratory and Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology.

Details

Format:

Website.

Intervention Types:

Educational (primarily educational material or psychoeducation) and Psychological – CBT.

Course Length:

Long (more than 5 modules). 16 weeks

Support Option:

Clinical support. Weekly individualised feedback and a monitored discussion group

Target Audience

Primary Category:

Weight and Obesity. Weight maintenance and binge eating

Target Audience:

Adolescent. Targets adolescents who are at risk of being overweight

Language:

English.

Access

Fee:

Unknown.

Access:

Closed: Research participation.

Contact Details:

btaylor@stanford.edu and meganjones@stanford.edu

Research evidence

Research Trials:

2

Research RCTs:

1

Outcome Summary:

In a trial comparing StudentBodies-BED with usual care (information about nutrition and physical activity), both groups showed reduced body mass index scores. The StudentBodies-BED group evidenced greater increases in dietary restraint post-intervention, and less improvement on shape concerns at follow-up. The intervention participants also reported using healthy eating-related and physical activity-related skills more frequently than usual care participants post-intervention and follow-up.

Moreover, further supportive evidence was provided in a subsequent randomised controlled study in which participants were assigned to either the StudentBodies-BED intervention group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the intervention group had significantly lower BMIs at the follow-up assessment compared to the controls - as well as displaying significant reductions in binge episodes and weight/shape concerns. Therefore, such findings suggest this program can help with both short-term weight loss and binge eating behaviour among adolescents.

 

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Research paper citations

Jones, M. Luce, K.H., Osborne, M.I., Taylor, K., Cunning, D., Celio Doyle, A., Wilfley, D.E. & Barr Taylor, C. (2008) Randomized Controlled Trial of an Internet-Facilitated Intervention for Reducing Binge Eating and Overweight in Adolescents. Pediatrics, 121, 5(3): 453-462.

Doyle, AC, Goldschmidt, A., Huang, C., Winzelberg, A.J., Barr Taylor, C, Wilfley, DE. (2008). Reduction in overweight and eating disorder symptoms via the Internet in adolescents: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43: 172-179.