NCT06084260

Nutritional Counseling Based on Self-compassion vs. Diet Approach on Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating

Completed NA Last updated 6 March 2026

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Diet group in Body Dissatisfaction in 194 participants. Completed in 20 December 2025.

Timeline

16 August 2023

Primary endpoint
20 December 2025

20 December 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	194
Start date	16 August 2023
Primary completion	20 December 2025
Estimated completion	20 December 2025
Sites	1 location across Brazil

Drugs / interventions tested

• Diet group
• Self-compassion group

Conditions studied

• Body Dissatisfaction — all drugs for Body Dissatisfaction →
• Disordered Eating — all drugs for Disordered Eating →

Sponsor

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Who can join

Adults 25 to 59, female only, with Body Dissatisfaction or Disordered Eating. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Current evidence has shown that the accepted standard of beauty, where women must be skinny, has increased body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. In order to deal with body dissatisfaction, the practice of restrictive diets - called the diet approach - becomes very often, although it can reinforce disordered eating and has questionable effects on body dissatisfaction. Self-compassion is an approach that proposes a kind and gentle look at body image issues and eating problems, which can be an alternative tool to deal with them. So, this study aims to compare a nutritional approach based on self-compassion techniques x a diet approach on dissatisfaction with body image, food restriction, and disordered eating in women who feel dissatisfied with their bodies.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Nutritional approach based in self-compassion versus energy-restricted diet approach in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in adult women: a protocol for randomized clinical trial.
   Ramos AB, da Silva VS, Cardoso DV, de Souza CG. · · 2025 · PMID 40455797 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0324030