Eating Disorder Prevention Program for Women With T1D

The Diabetes Body Project (DBP) is an adapted version of the Body Project Prevention program designed specifically for individuals with Type 1 Diabetes. DBP consists of six weekly, one-hour long sessions. Group participants complete the exercises from the original Body Project and also new diabetes-specific content, drawn from Olmsted et al. (2002) that is delivered in a dissonance-based interactive format with Socratic questions from group leaders encourage participants to generate their own answers.

We selected a T1D management/Eating disorder psychoeducational comparison condition previously tested (Olmsted et al., 2002) to control for expectancy effects and demand characteristics. To match the Diabetes Body Project, the educational lectures by Dr. Olmsted will be delivered in 6 1-hour blocks. Topics include basic information about the various EDs, complications of ED behaviors, diabetes and body image, effects of dieting on blood glucose, and the risk of complications.