None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The aim of this study is to test the feasibility, efficacy, and acceptability of a co-designed digital body image intervention, a website, intended to provide non-clinical adult women with cognitive behavioural, psychoeducational, and media and health literacy activities. We hypothesise that relative to pre-intervention, participants in the treatment group would report decreased body dissatisfaction and ideal internalisations, and higher body acceptance and health confidence at post-intervention. We hypothesise sustained effects at one -month follow-up, compared to a wait list control group. We also aimed to learn more about how treatment group participants would rate the website in acceptability, and how the website could be improved. By evaluating the efficacy of the present co-designed website, there is potential to address the gap in scalable, user-centred body image interventions that are suitable for preventative and early care.
Interventions
School of Self-Acceptance is a web-based intervention comprised of six modules. The modules include components of psychoeducation, media and health literacy, and body acceptance, with a range of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness activities. The website was co-designed by women with lived experience of body dissatisfaction and relevant mental health experts through interviews, focus groups, and a feedback survey. The website is designed for individuals to work through independently without gu
School of Self-Acceptance is a web-based intervention comprised of six modules. The modules include components of psychoeducation, media and health literacy, and body acceptance, with a range of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness activities. The website was co-designed by women with lived experience of body dissatisfaction and relevant mental health experts through interviews, focus groups, and a feedback survey. The website is designed for individuals to work through independently without guidance from a facilitator and is intended to be completed individually. In our RCT the participants will be given two weeks to work through the six modules, each taking approximately 30 minutes to complete, and due to the digital nature, they can be completed at a time and place of their choosing. The intervention is not designed to be tailored; however, individuals will likely gravitate more to activities that align with their interests. Participant self-reporting will determine adherence, e.g., "do you believe you read, watched, and understood the provided information?" with responses Yes/No/Maybe and text options for additional context.
Sponsors
Lauren Conboy - University of South Australia
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 35 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Participants must a) identify as women b) be aged 18 to 35 c) be living in Australia d) have body dissatisfaction and no eating disorder diagnosis as of the past five years
Exclusion criteria
Participants will be excluded if they a) do not identify as women b) are aged under 18 years or over 35 years c) do not live in Australia d) do not experience body dissatisfaction e) have been diagnosed with an eating disorder in the past five years
Outcome results
None listed