A Novel Intervention Promoting Eating Disorder Treatment Among College Students

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Eating Disorders

In brief

Eating disorders (EDs) have the highest rate of mortality of any mental illness. On U.S. college campuses, an estimated 80% students with clinically significant ED symptoms do not receive treatment. There are likely more than one million students whose EDs go untreated in any given year. Left untreated EDs typically become more severe and refractory to treatment. Given the impact of EDs on mental and physical health and the connection therein with social, academic, and economic outcomes, an effective intervention to increase rates of treatment utilization would have broad societal effects extending well beyond the campus setting. This study is an online intervention designed to identify and increase help-seeking among undergraduates with previously undiagnosed/untreated EDs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02284685

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

1149

Starts

2015-01-01

Expected to finish

2015-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-05-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Undergraduate at participating university
• Untreated symptoms of an eating disorder (as identified in an online screen)

You may not qualify if…

• Less than 18 years of age
• Studying abroad during study period

Where it is running

• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Bard College — Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, United States
• Appalachian State University — Boone, North Carolina, United States
• Mercyhurst University — Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

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