None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Research indicates a high prevalence of eating disorder symptomology in elite athletes in comparison to the non-athlete population (Smolak et al., 2000). Perfectionism is an a critical risk and maintaining factor in eating disorders (Egan et al., 2011) and compulsive exercise (Coen & Ogles, 1993). CBT guided self-help treatment has been found to treat effectively perfectionism (Egan et al., 2014). This trial will implement an online, guided self-help treatment for perfectionism in athletes to examine if it reduces Eating Disoder symptomology, compulsive exercise and burnout in athletes.
Interventions
8 week Online guided self help Cognitive Behavioural Treatment Program for Clinical Perfectionism. Participants will be sent the text "Overcoming Perfectionism" by Shafran, Egan and Wade which is a self help guided CBT intervention targeting perfectionism, Through weekly emails participants will be directed to read certain areas of the text and complete the associated activities. Each session should approximately require 2 hours to complete. Participants are required to complete each section o
8 week Online guided self help Cognitive Behavioural Treatment Program for Clinical Perfectionism. Participants will be sent the text "Overcoming Perfectionism" by Shafran, Egan and Wade which is a self help guided CBT intervention targeting perfectionism, Through weekly emails participants will be directed to read certain areas of the text and complete the associated activities. Each session should approximately require 2 hours to complete. Participants are required to complete each section of text and activities by the end of one week. Activities include worksheets exploring the perfectionist beliefs and cognitive restructuring and problem solving as well as reflections. Participants may also have to plan and participate in behavioural experiments. The time taken to complete Behavioural experiments would depend on the complexity of the design from 5 minutes to 1 hour. Communication via email with an investigator will ensure participants complete each session.
Sponsors
Curtin University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
1) Elevated perfectionism as indicated by a score of 24.7 or greater, on the Concern over Mistakes (CM) subscale of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (FMPS; Frost, Marten, Lahart, & Rosenblate, 1990). 2) Participants must be at least 18 years of age. 3) Refrain from entering psychological treatment or medication during treatment. 4) Stable use of psychological medication for at least 1 month prior to participation in research.
Exclusion criteria
1) Participants who are found to have psychological disorders assessed by the Mini International Psychiatric Interview (MINI) (Sheehan et al., 1998) 2) Participants who are found to have medium to high risk on the suicide risk assessment on the MINI (Sheehan et al., 1998). 3) Participants who demonstrate diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa as measured by BMI less than or equal to 17kg/m2.
Outcome results
None listed