Healthy Sport Project; Preventing Eating Disorders in Sport

Eating Disorders Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Healthy Sport Project: "Recovery, Body Acceptance and Health in Young Athletes"

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05583162
• Other study ID #: 277766
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 10, 2022
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Ostfold University College
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The "Healthy Sport Project" is an adapted program from the Body Project by prof Eric Stice, aiming to reduce body dissatisfaction and symptoms of disordered eating and eating disorders in adolescent elite athletes. This trial aim to evaluate the effect of the program using a one-arm pilot study design in 14 years age old athletes at a Norwegian Elite Sport Junior High School.

Description:

Eating disorders (EDs) are serious illnesses with highest incidence in adolescents. Moreover, athletes have a higher frequency of symptoms of disordered eating (DE) and EDs than non-athletes. There are many reasons to this health issue, but body appearance pressure, competing in body mass sensitive sports, and comments on body appearance are important explanations. Few programs have proved effective in preventing DE and EDs in the general population, or in athletes specifically, and none is permanent operative in sports in Norway. Body Project by prof Eric Stice have proved effective in preventing body dissatisfaction, figure idealization and new onset of EDs in female adolescents above 15 years of age, and with body dissatisfaction, from the general population. A few attempts to adapt this program to female athletes, argue for a comparative positive effect. Three important elements to further address, are: 1) programs need also to be tested in males; 2) programs need to be tested in adolescents of younger age before the typical onset of an ED; and 3) programs need to be possible to administer by non-professionals.

In this study the research group aim to adapt and test the effect of the Body Project, by the pilot study the "Healthy Sport Project", in elite junior athletes attending specialized junior sport high schools (age 14). The final goal for this project group is to create an effective preventive program for body dissatisfaction and DE/EDs in young athletes of both sexes and in mixed sports, and which may be administered by the schoolteachers.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 73
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 13 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• pupil at the recruited Sport Jr High School

Exclusion Criteria:

• no informed consent from parents

• not willing to participate

• a diagnosis of an eating disorder and being under (or waiting for) treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent - Emotional Problem
• Athletic Injuries
• Body Dissatisfaction
• Disordered Eating
• Eating Disorders
• Feeding and Eating Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Healthy Sport Project
2 interactive information lectures (given per class of 30 pupils), and 4 interactive workshops (given to sex-homogenous groups of 10 pupils). One per week, a total of 6 weeks with intervention.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	Therese Fostervold Mathisen	Fredrikstad

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ostfold University College	Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Question on injuries, questions by research group	1 Questions asking for any incident of injury (yes/no)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Question on injuries, questions by research group	Where the injury was located (chose from list of anatomical locations)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Age (years)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Sex (male/female)	Before intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Sport (any given)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Body weight (kg)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Height (m)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Other	Demographics, questions by research group	Number of hours in physical activity per week (hours).	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Primary	Change in symptoms of Eating Disorder, Eating Disorder Questionnaire Short-form	9 Questions on eating restriction, on worries for body weight and appearance. Rated by number of days the different content has been relevant. By Fairburn and Beglin, 2008	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Primary	Change in Body Acceptance, Body Acceptance Scale, version 2	10 Questions on body acceptance, rated by a 5 point Likert Scale (never - always). By Halliwell et al 2017.	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Primary	Change in symptoms of internalization of body figure ideals, SATAQ-4	10 Questions from subscales of SATAQ-4 (thinness idealisation and muscularity idealization), rated by 5 point Likert Scale. By Schaefer et al 2015	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Primary	Experiences from participating in the project	Focus group interview following a semistructured manual; asking for experiences with participation in the "Healthy Sport Project"	After intervention (post, +6 weeks)
Secondary	Change in experiences of Body Appearance Pressure (BAP), questions by research group	Question on experience of BAP (if it is experienced yes/no)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Secondary	Change in experiences of Body Appearance Pressure (BAP), questions by research group	Question on arenas for experience of BAP (in which contexts; choose between listed arenas)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Secondary	Change in dietary habits, questions by research group	Questions on meal frequency (numbers); frequency of intake of fruit and vegetables (number of portions); frequency of intake of dairy products (number of portions); frequency of intake of fish (number of portions)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Secondary	Change in dietary habits, questions by research group	Use of supplements (yes/no)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Secondary	Change in dietary habits, questions by research group	Use of supplements ( what type of supplements, chose from listed alternatives)	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention
Secondary	Change in nutrition knowledge, questions by research group	3 questions asking for examples of foods providing carbohydrates; proteins; fats, respectively.	Before intervention, After intervention (post, +6 weeks), 6 months after end of intervention