INTERconNEcT-Eds: a Guided Self-help Mobile App to Improve Outcome in Eating Disorders

The participants allocated in the intervention GSH arm will have access to self-help materials (workbook and videoclips), forum groups (interactional materials), online interpersonal group sessions for 8 weeks. The proposed online GSH will be adapted from two online interventions developed and tested with people with eating disorders by the Eating Disorders Research Unit team at King's College London, with a cooperation of the University of Palermo research team (Cardi et al., 2020). The GSH will include self-help materials, i.e. a written workbook and a library of 74 brief video-clips with the goal of providing psychoeducation about eating disorders and interpersonal difficulties and describing and modelling the use of helpful strategies to reverse abnormal eating behaviours. Participants will also attend a weekly online forum with interactional materials, and an online interpersonal group session.

The participants allocated in the intervention GSH arm will have access to self-help materials (workbook and videoclips), forum groups (interactional materials), online interpersonal group sessions for 8 weeks. The proposed online GSH will be adapted from two online interventions developed and tested with people with eating disorders by the Eating Disorders Research Unit team at King's College London, with a cooperation of the University of Palermo research team (Cardi et al., 2020). The GSH will include self-help materials, i.e. a written workbook and a library of 74 brief video-clips with the goal of providing psychoeducation about eating disorders and interpersonal difficulties and describing and modelling the use of helpful strategies to reverse abnormal eating behaviours.

The Treatment as Usual is the usual or routine care provided to participants in the outpatient setting.