Improving body image in female Chinese social media users with eating disorder symptoms: a randomized controlled trial of two online self-guided single-session interventions
Yunyi Cheng, Yuhan Chen, Wesley R. Barnhart, Chun Chen, See Heng Yim, Jason M. Nagata, Feng Ji, Jinbo He · 2025
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Social media can warp how young women see their bodies, and many show signs of eating disorders. Yunyi Cheng and co-authors test two one-session online programs for that group in a 2025 trial. One teaches media smarts, and the other uses writing about what the body can do.
The trial signed up 204 women through a Chinese social app and split them into three groups. Both programs beat the wait-list group on body image and eating scores after one and four weeks. The writing program edged ahead on flexible eating. Most users finished, and 95 percent said they would pass the program to a friend. Short online help may scale well.
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| CREATOR | Yunyi Cheng, Yuhan Chen, Wesley R. Barnhart, Chun Chen, See Heng Yim, Jason M. Nagata, Feng Ji, Jinbo He |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 101 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |