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Cognitive models from misinformation research can enhance eating disorder (ED) prevention by using strategies like prebunking. These approaches offer scalable, low-burden interventions for youth at risk, especially on social media.

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  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Digital Media Studies

Background:

  • Youth are increasingly exposed to appearance- and diet-related content online, elevating eating disorder (ED) risk.
  • Existing ED interventions can be enhanced by incorporating cognitive models from misinformation research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how cognitive models from misinformation research can improve early interventions for eating disorder (ED) risk in youth.
  • To identify novel strategies for intervening in the pathway to disordered eating, particularly in digital environments.

Main Methods:

  • Leveraging cognitive mechanisms common to both ED vulnerability and susceptibility to misinformation.
  • Outlining misinformation-informed strategies like prebunking, inoculation, and content evaluation tasks.
  • Proposing brief, digitally delivered interventions adaptable to social media platforms.

Main Results:

  • Integrating misinformation-informed strategies with ED prevention may effectively reduce risk in young people, especially those using social media for appearance-related content.
  • Interventions are potentially more effective in short-form, algorithm-driven social media environments with limited clinical oversight.

Conclusions:

  • Misinformation-informed strategies provide new cognitive leverage points that complement existing ED interventions.
  • These tools offer low-burden, scalable prevention approaches extending support beyond clinical settings into digital spaces.
  • Five concrete steps are proposed to advance this research stream.