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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2014 Jul;16(7):453. doi: 10.1007/s11920-014-0453-0

Table 1.

Overview of participant and intervention features of successful* eating disorders prevention programs

Participant Features Intervention Features
Program Age & Sex Risk
Status
Setting & Format Length & Dose Providers
The Weigh to Eat
  Neumark-Sztainer et al., 1995 [17] High school girls Universal Classroom groups 10 weekly 1-hour sessions High school staff
Stewart’s Untitled Program
  Stewart et al., 2001 [18] Middle and high school girls Universal Classroom groups 6 weekly 45-minute sessions Research staff
Planet Health
  Austin et al., 2005 [19]; 2007 [31]; 2012 [32] Middle school girls and boys Universal Classroom groups 32 sessions over 2-year period High school staff
Student Bodies™
  Taylor et al., 2006 [20] College women Selected Online groups 8 weekly sessions Research staff
  Jones et al., 2008 [38] High school girls and boys Indicated Online groups 16 weekly sessions Research staff
  Jacobi et al., 2012 [39] College women Indicated Online groups 8 weekly sessions Research staff
Body Project/Dissonance Programs
  Stice et al., 2006 [1]; 2008 [40] High s1chool girls Selected Recruited groups 3 weekly 1-hour sessions Research staff
  Stice et al., 2009 [46]; 2011 [47] High school girls Selected Recruited groups 4 weekly 1-hour sessions High school staff
  Becker et al., 2006 [22]; 2008 [48]; 2010 [49] College women Universal Sorority groups 2 weekly 2-hour sessions College peer leaders
  Stice, Rohde, et al., 2013 [50] College women Selected Recruited groups 4 weekly 1-hour sessions College peer leaders
  Stice, Butryn, et al., 2013 [51] College women Selected Recruited groups 4 weekly 1-hour sessions College clinicians
Healthy Weight
  Stice et al., 2006 [21]; 2008 [40] High school girls Selected Recruited groups 3 weekly 1-hour sessions Research staff
  Stice, et al., 2012 [56]; 2013 [57] College women Selected Recruited groups 4 weekly 1-hour sessions Research staff
  Becker et al., 2010 [49]; 2012 [58] College women Universal Sorority/athlete groups 2 weekly 2-hour sessions College peer leaders
New Moves
  Neumark-Sztainer et al., 2010 [23] High school girls Selected Classroom groups and Daily curriculum for 16 weeks High school staff and
Yager’s Untitled Program Individual meetings research staff
  Yager & O’Dea, 2010 [24] College women and men Selected Classroom groups 24 biweekly 1-hour sessions Research staff
Eating, Aesthetic Feminine Models and the Media
  González et al., 2011 [25] Middle school girls and boys Universal Classroom groups 4 or 5 weekly 60–90-minute
sessions
Research Staff
*

Successful programs are defined as those with one or more trial that: (1) was published in English, (2) utilized a randomized or quasi-randomized, controlled design, (3) reported a reduction in existing eating disorder pathology or prevented the onset of future pathology through at least a 6-month follow-up.