A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Digital, Gamified Early Intervention for Eating Disorders ("FlexED")
A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing Mechanism Engagement and Clinical Impact of FlexED: A Digital, Gamified Early Intervention for Eating Disorders
The goal of this clinical trial is to test whether a new digital intervention decreases eating disorder symptoms in young women and girls at risk by changing how they experience thoughts and feelings about their body.
The digital intervention is based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Participants will be randomly assigned (like a coin toss) to either the new digital intervention or education modules completed online.
The main questions are:
Does the digital intervention change how participants experience thoughts and feelings about their body or how they react to eating disorder triggers (e.g., images of idealized bodies)? Do these changes lead to decreases in eating disorder symptoms? Is the intervention acceptable and at the right dose?
Participants will:
Complete seven brief digital sessions over about 8 weeks. Complete interviews, surveys and lab assessments of reaction to body-related words and images.
Participants are followed for about 1 year.
調査の概要
研究の種類
入学 (推定)
段階
- 適用できない
連絡先と場所
研究連絡先
- 名前:Rhonda M Merwin, Ph.D.
- 電話番号:919-681-7231
- メール:rhonda.merwin@duke.edu
研究連絡先のバックアップ
- 名前:Dottie R Mayo
- 電話番号:919-668-1935
- メール:drm72@duke.edu
研究場所
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North Carolina
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Durham、North Carolina、アメリカ、27705
- 募集
- Duke University
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主任研究者:
- Rhonda M Merwin, Ph.D.
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コンタクト:
- Dottie R Mayo
- 電話番号:919-668-1935
- メール:drm72@duke.edu
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参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
- 子
- 大人
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- Female between the age of 15-25 years old.
- Weight Concerns Scale score of >=47.
- Endorses one or more eating disorder behaviors (e.g., extreme dieting or exercise, subjective or objective binge eating, purging behaviors).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently meets the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for full threshold anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or binge eating disorder, or for an eating or feeding disorder that does not include body-image or weight related distress and is not the focus of study (e.g., ARFID, PICA) or a past diagnosis of one of these disorders.
- Change in psychotropic medications in the past month.
- Active suicidal ideation, current substance use disorder or diagnosed psychotic disorder.
- Bipolar disorder not being treated with medication.
- Currently in treatment for an eating disorder.
- Non-English speaking.
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的:処理
- 割り当て:ランダム化
- 介入モデル:並列代入
- マスキング:独身
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
介入・治療 |
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実験的:"FlexED"
Seven 20-minute sessions of an online, multimedia application that teaches psychological flexibility with body-image related thoughts and feelings.
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Intervention consists of seven 20-minute sessions of a digital intervention based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Participants learn psychological flexibility skills for body-image distress by completing interactive exercises and games with a relatable character and story line and receive rewards that reinforce learning.
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アクティブコンパレータ:Educational Control
Seven 20-minute online education sessions about eating disorders.
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Intervention consists of seven digital online sessions of education about eating disorders and body image.
Participants read information about how eating disorders develop and their impact on health and well-being and body image, watch videos and complete quizzes to check knowledge.
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Change from Baseline in the Body Image - Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (BI-AAQ)
時間枠:Baseline, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Self-report measure of body-image psychological flexibility.
The measure consists of 13 (full measure) or 5 (short measure) items that ask about the degree to which thoughts and feelings about the body interfere with living.
Higher scores indicate greater flexibility/adaptability.
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Baseline, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Change from Baseline in the Body-Image Stroop Bias Score
時間枠:Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Change in reaction time to body-related versus neutral words in an emotional stroop paradigm.
In this paradigm, participants identify the color of the written word as quickly as possible.
Differences in reaction time between emotionally relevant words and neutral words is calculated as a bias score.
Lower bias scores indicate improvement.
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Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Change from Baseline in Eye Gaze Fixations - Body-Image Related Images
時間枠:Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Change in the number of fixations on body-image related images, including idealized bodies, overweight bodies, body-weight measurement, and images of binge eating and body-related distress.
Fewer fixations indicate improvement.
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Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Acceptability of the intervention
時間枠:8 weeks
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Enrollment targets met, >70% of participants that start the intervention will complete >80%, >70% of participants and sessions will have user inputs indicating engagement.
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8 weeks
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Change from Baseline in Eating Disorder Examination (EDE)
時間枠:Baseline, 12 weeks, 24 weeks
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Clinician-administered interview assessing eating disorder symptom severity, producing a Global score (main outcome) and 4 Subscale scores: Restraint, Eating Concerns, Weight Concerns, Shape Concerns.
Higher scores indicate greater symptomatology.
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Baseline, 12 weeks, 24 weeks
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Change from Baseline in the Eating Disorder Examination - Questionnaire (EDE-Q)
時間枠:Baseline, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Questionnaire format of the clinician-administered interview assessing eating disorder symptom severity, producing a Global score (main outcome) and 4 Subscale scores: Restraint, Eating Concerns, Weight Concerns, Shape Concerns.
Higher scores indicate greater symptomatology.
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Baseline, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Change from Baseline in the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA)
時間枠:Baseline, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Measures the extent to which eating disorder symptoms impair functioning.
Higher scores indicate greater impairment.
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Baseline, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Change from Baseline in the Comprehensive Assessment of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Processes -10 (CompACT-10)
時間枠:Baseline, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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A 10-item measure of psychological flexibility as a multidimensional construct with subscales of Openness, Awareness and Engagement.
Higher scores indicate greater flexibility/adaptability.
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Baseline, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 weeks
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Change from Baseline in Daily Levels of Body Image Distress and Psychological Flexibility
時間枠:Baseline, 8 Weeks
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4 days of ecological momentary assessment of 1) distress/body-image distress 2) problematic behaviors to change body weight/shape, 3) general attempts to suppress/get rid of unwanted thoughts and feelings, 4) avoiding doing things because of concern about body, and 5) the ability to maintain adaptive distance and 6) orient to values.
Scaled items are on a Likert Scale 1=Not at All to 6=Very Much.
For items 1-4, higher scores are more problematic; For items 5-6, higher scores are more flexible adaptive.
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Baseline, 8 Weeks
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二次結果の測定
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Change from Baseline in Heart Rate when Viewing Emotional Film Clips
時間枠:Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Heart rate and heart rate variability measured with BIOPAC during the viewing of film clips (neutral, emotional-general, emotional-body-image related).
Increases indicate greater flexibility/adaptability.
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Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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Change from Baseline in Cognitive Flexibility - Set-Shifting as assessed by the Wisconsin Card Sort Test (WCST)
時間枠:Baseline, 24 weeks
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68-item computerized version of the WCST using default settings; perseverative errors.
Decreases in errors indicates greater cognitive flexibility/adaptability.
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Baseline, 24 weeks
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Change from Baseline in Response Inhibition as assessed by Go/No-Go Task
時間枠:Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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The Go/No-Go task measures ability to inhibit a response when signaled (among other outcomes), measured by commission errors (frequency of responding when signaled to not respond); Other indices include sensitivity (ability to discriminate go/no go trials) and reaction time to go stimuli.
Commission errors are of primary interest; decreases indicate reductions in impulsivity / improvement.
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Baseline, 8 weeks, 24 weeks
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その他の成果指標
結果測定 |
メジャーの説明 |
時間枠 |
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Change from Baseline in the Body Dissatisfaction Subscale of the Eating Disorder Inventory-3
時間枠:Baseline, 8 Weeks
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EDI-3 Body Dissatisfaction (BD) Subscale, 10 items assessing contentment with specific body parts on a 6-point Likert scale (alternative mechanism of change).
Higher scores indicate greater symptomatology.
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Baseline, 8 Weeks
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Change from Baseline in Problematic Social Media Use as assessed by the Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale
時間枠:Baseline, 12 Weeks
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4-item scale assessing the extent to which social media use interfered or caused problems in life, with an additional item of hours of use (exploratory).
Decreases indicate improvement.
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Baseline, 12 Weeks
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