Meaning-centered Intervention for Young Women With Weight and Shape Concerns

NCT06462300 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: PSY-2223-S-0010
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 166
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Eating Disorder Symptom

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Meaning in life

  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

  Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11)

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Tripartite domain of meaning in life: Comprehension

  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: Mattering

  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)

• Internalizing symptoms

  Baseline (week 1), post-assessment (week 7), follow-up (week 11)

Study Arms (2)

Meaning-centered intervention condition

EXPERIMENTAL

The group of participants receiving the meaning-centered intervention

Behavioral: A meaning-centered intervention for young women with weight and shape concerns

Waitlist control condition

NO INTERVENTION

The group of participants not receiving an intervention

Interventions

A meaning-centered intervention for young women with weight and shape concerns BEHAVIORAL

* adapted version of the manualized meaning-centered psychotherapy for cancer patients developed by van der Spek et al. (2017) * six weekly individual online sessions, each lasting one hour * sessions led by a certified trainer * four sources of meaning will be explored: personal life story, dealing with life's limitations, creating one's own life, and meaningful experiences * homework assignments designed to deepen participants' experience and reflection on meaning in their daily lives

Meaning-centered intervention condition

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years - 35 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: Participants had to indicate "woman" as their preferred gender identity during the screening process.
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• 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

You may not qualify if:

• Current treatment for eating disorder
• not fluent in English, Dutch, or German

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Groningen: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Groningen

Groningen, 9712TS, Netherlands

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Weights and Measures

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Investigative Techniques

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 3, 2024
• First Posted: June 17, 2024
• Study Start: October 20, 2022
• Primary Completion: February 6, 2024
• Study Completion: February 6, 2024
• Last Updated: June 17, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: Starting 6 months after publication
• Access Criteria: Access will be given based on individual requests

Locations

NL (1)