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College women at risk for an eating disorder may benefit from online intervention
August 28th, 2006
A long-term, large-scale study has found that an Internet-based intervention program may prevent some high risk, college-age women from developing an eating disorder. The study, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), was published in a recent issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. The researchers conducted a randomized, controlled trial of 480 college-age women in the San Francisco Bay area and San Diego, Calif., who were identified in preliminary interviews as being at risk for developing an eating disorder. The trial included an eight-week, Internet-based, cognitive-behavioral...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2006-08-28)
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