Prevention of eating disorders with single session interventions: Hype or promise?

Prevention of eating disorders with single session interventions: Hype or promise? Is reducing the risk of eating disorders with single session interventions a hype or a promise? Tracey Wade at the Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing investigates. Single session interventions (SSIs) are brief, structured, goal-oriented programs, following evidence-based approaches to create meaningful change to mental health in a single encounter. An umbrella review of 24 systematic reviews and meta-analyses of SSIs was published between 2007 and 2024. (1) Only seven included trials of digital or paper-based self-guided SSIs; the remainder focused on face-to-face interactions. Overall, SSIs showed a small, significant positive effect across outcomes and age groups.