Body Project (Dissonance Intervention)

An Evidence-Based Practice

Goal / Mission

The Body Project is a dissonance intervention designed to help women in high school and college resist societal and cultural pressures to conform to an idealized notion of what it means to be 'thin' and to help increase body acceptance. A reduction in thin-ideal internalization should result in reduced use of unhealthy weight-control behaviors, decreased eating disorder symptoms, and overall increase in mood and well-being.

Impact

The Body Project program has yielded numerous significant benefits at posttest and 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, and 3 years after program implementation. These include significant reductions in body dissatisfaction, bulimic symptoms and psychosocial impairment compared to control group participants.

Results / Accomplishments

The Body Project dissonance intervention reduces eating disorder symptoms, unhealthy dieting, body dissatisfaction, and negative mood. This intervention has also been found to reduce risk for future onset of eating disorders and obesity and may reduce mental health care utilization.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Oregon Research Institute
Primary Contact
Paul Rohde
Oregon Research Institute
1776 Millrace Drive
Eugene, OR 97403-2536
(541) 484-1108
paulr@ori.org
Topics
Health / Physical Activity
Health / Adolescent Health
Health / Mental Health & Mental Disorders
Organization(s)
Oregon Research Institute
For more details
http://www.bodyprojectsupport.org/
http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/factSheet.php?pi...
Target Audience
Teens, Women

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.