Internet-based preventive intervention for reducing eating disorder risk: A randomized controlled trial comparing guided with unguided self-help

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-98

  Kass, Andrea E ^a   Trockel, Mickey ^b   Safer, Debra L ^b   Sinton, Meghan M ^c   Cunning, Darby ^b   Rizk, Marianne T ^d   Genkin, Brooke H ^d   Weisman, Hannah L ^b   Bailey, Jakki O ^b   Jacobi, Corinna ^e   Wilfley, Denise E ^a,d   Taylor, C Barr ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Guided self help; Internet treatment; Prevention; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNET; MOTIVATION AND EXPECTATION SCALE; PROGRAM EFFICACY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SELF HELP; WEIGHT CONCERN SCALE; WEIGHT CONTROL; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SELF CARE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908408986     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2014.09.010     Document Type: Article

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