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| Title |
Peer mentoring for eating disorders: evaluation of a pilot program
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| Published in |
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40814-018-0268-6 |
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| Authors |
Jennifer Beveridge, Andrea Phillipou, Kelly Edwards, Alice Hobday, Krissy Hilton, Cathy Wyett, Anna Saw, Georgia Graham, David Castle, Leah Brennan, Philippa Harrison, Rebecca de Gier, Narelle Warren, Freya Hanly, Benjamin Torrens-Witherow, J. Richard Newton, Steering group committee |
| Abstract |
Eating disorders are serious psychiatric illnesses that are often associated with poor quality of life and low long-term recovery rates. Peer mentor programs have been found to improve psychiatric symptoms and quality of life in other mental illnesses, and a small number of studies have suggested that eating disorder patients may benefit from such programs. The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of a peer mentor program for individuals with eating disorders in terms of improving symptomatology and quality of life. Up to 30 individuals with a past history of an eating disorder will be recruited to mentor 30 individuals with a current eating disorder. Mentoring will involve 13 sessions (held approximately every 2 weeks), of up to 3 h each, over 6 months. This pilot proof-of-concept feasibility study will inform the efficacy of a peer mentoring program on improving eating disorder symptomatology and quality of life, and will inform future randomised controlled trials. Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registration Number: ACTRN12617001412325. The date of registration (retrospective): 05/10/2017. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 29 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 5 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Lecturer | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 13 | 45% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Psychology | 8 | 28% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 3% |
| Chemical Engineering | 1 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 14 | 48% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2023.
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#7,122,990
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#460
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#116,769
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#13
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