The Impact of Body Appreciation on Female Cancer Survivors Body Image.

The ‘Expand Your Horizon’ (EYH) is a single-session body appreciation-focused writing intervention. Participants will complete baseline / pre-intervention measures and visual analogue scales, followed immediately by the fifteen-minute writing task with writing prompts about 6 domains of body functionality. Immediately after completing the writing session, participants complete visual analogue scale measures of body appreciation, body dissatisfaction, and distress. One week later, participants complete post-intervention measures. The body appreciation writing task encourages participants to focus on aspects of their body unrelated to physical appearance. The writing prompts in the intervention group were modified to reflect experiences cancer survivors may have ((eg.”In your writing assignment, you will focus only on body functions that are related to (1) health (e.g., fighting cancerous cells, breathing, or a continuously beating heart)”)). The intervention will be conducted online via Qualtrics, completed individually, and does not need a specific provider. However, participants will need access to a computer/tablet/phone and a personal email account. Adherence to intervention will be analysed through the word count of each writing exercise.