Mental health
Conditions
Interventions
Prevention clinical trial, randomized controlled, parallel, with 3 arms, single-blind.
Participants will be randomly allocated to one of the three written intervention groups: G1 - self-compassion gro
G2 - self-esteem group
and G3 - control group. Assessments will be carried out in 3 moments (times): pre-intervention (T1), immediately post-intervention (T2) and 2 weeks post-intervention (T3 - follow-up).
G1 will carry ou
Behavioural
Sponsors
Cristiany Seppe Faria
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora campus Governador Valadares
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 35 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: As criteria for inclusion of participants, it is pointed out to be regularly enrolled in a higher course at the IFMG of Governador Valadares; and be between 18 and 35 years old.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Individuals who indicate a recent diagnosis and / or treatment (last 12 months) of severe psychopathologies (psychosis, risk or attempted suicide, panic disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder) will be excluded. Individuals who do not participate in all proposed steps (pre-intervention assessment; intervention; post-intervention assessment; and two-week post-intervention assessment) will be excluded. And participants who demonstrate that they are not attentive to the proper completion of the instruments will be excluded, being classified as random respondents through low scores on the Conscious Respondents Scale (MARJANOVIC et al., 2014).
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Preventive interventions in self-compassion and self-esteem are expected to be effective in increasing body appreciation and improving mental health in young university students, which will be measured through validated instruments for assessing body appreciation and mental health, based on from the finding that there was a significant improvement in the participants' body appreciation and mental health indexes.;It is expected that the intervention in self-compassion will prove to be more efficient than the intervention in self-esteem, which will be measured through validated instruments to assess body appreciation and mental health, based on the finding that there was a significantly greater improvement from the intervention in self-compassion on the participants' body appreciation and mental health indexes. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected that preventive interventions in self-compassion and self-esteem will prove effective for increasing self-compassion and self-esteem, respectively, in young university students, which will be measured through validated instruments for evaluating self-compassion and self-esteem, based on the observation that there was a significant improvement in the participants' self-compassion and self-esteem rates.;The levels of self-compassion, self-esteem, body appreciation, body functionality appreciation and general mental health of young university students are expected to be lower in the pre-intervention assessment, higher in the post-intervention assessment and at intermediate levels in the two-week post-intervention assessment (that is, higher in relation to the pre-intervention evaluation, but lower in relation to the immediate post-intervention evaluation). While it is expected that the levels of anxiety and depression of young university students, conversely, will be higher in the pre-intervention evaluation, lower in the post-intervention evaluation, but also in intermediate levels in the evaluation two weeks after the intervention (that is, lower in relation to the pre-intervention evaluation, but higher in relation to the immediate post-intervention evaluation). This will be measured through validated instruments for assessing self-compassion, self-esteem, body appreciation, body functionality appreciation, general mental health, anxiety and depression, based on the finding that there was a significant improvement in indexes of self-compassion, self-esteem, body appreciation, body functionality appreciation, general mental health, anxiety and depression of the participants.;It is expected that there will be positive correlations between the levels of self-compassion, self-esteem, body appreciation, body functionality appreciation and general mental health, as well as negative correlations between the latter and the levels of anxiety and depression in | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactClara;Cristiany Neves;Faria
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora campus Governador Valadares;Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora campus Governador Valadares
Outcome results
None listed