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Brief non-dieting intervention increases intuitive eating and reduces dieting intention, body image dissatisfaction, and anti-fat attitudes: A randomized controlled trial
Wilson et al. (2020) developed a non-dieting intervention that aims to convince female college students to reject unhealthy dietary behaviors, accept their bodies, and increase healthy eating. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to examine the effectiveness of this brief dissonance-based intervention by testing it in 94 female university students (mean age = 20.6 years; mean BMI = 23.8 kg/m2). The intervention involved two 90-120 min interactive group sessions that were designed to instil the rejection of dieting, increase body acceptance, and help develop healthy eating skills. Randomization whether the participants either took part in this non-dieting intervention or were allocated in the brochure control condition. The intervention was found to significantly enhance dieting intention, intuitive eating, body image dissatisfaction, eating concerns, and anti-fat attitudes, when compared to the results of the control group. These effects were maintained at the 1-month follow-up also. Furthermore, the intervention group improved in terms of dietary consumption and mental health-related quality of life over time. These findings support the implementation of a non-dieting approach, as it can improve eating- and weight-related behaviors in young adult women. [NPID: intuitive eating, internal hunger, satiety cues, female, college, body acceptance, body image]
Year: 2020
