Prevention Program Promoting Self Resilience, Positive Self-Image and Body Image Among Adolescents

Primary Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title:

"In Favor of Resilient Self"- A Prevention Program Promoting Positive Self-Image and Body Image Among Adolescence Aged 15-17

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03216018
• Other study ID #: Tel-Hai College
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: September 2018
• Source: Tel Hai College
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study is a group randomized controlled trial. High school classes were allocated by randomization to the intervention or control group by a Randomization function in Excel computer program. Outcomes were measured by questionnaire at pre-intervention, post-intervention and 3-months follow-up. The study protocol was approved by Tel Hai College institutional review board. Parents of all participants, in the intervention and in the control group, received information about the program and the study and were asked to provide informed consent.

Description:

The study is a group randomized controlled trial. High school classes were allocated by randomization to the intervention or control group by a Randomization function in Excel computer program. Outcomes were measured by questionnaire at pre-intervention, post-intervention and 3-month follow-up. The study protocol was approved by Tel Hai College institutional review board. Parents of all participants, in the intervention and in the control group, shall receive information about the program and the study and shall be asked to provide informed consent.

Participants and setting: A high school in the northern region of Israel was recruited for the study. 9th and 10th grade classes were chosen to participate in the study, all mixed gender classes. All data will be collected within the school setting.

Program description: "In Favor of a Resilient Self" is an interactive, cognitive behavior program aiming to address low resilience, low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction. This program is part of a series of intervention programs named "In Favor of Myself" which has been in development since 2008. This resilience-based program contains a range of coping strategies to help adolescents improve resilience, self-esteem and body image. The program consists of nine 90-min sessions delivered by one group leader in the presence of the classes' teachers. Participants in the control group shall receive one session of 90 minutes of health nutrition education.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 200
• Est. completion date: June 1, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants who filled out the questionnaires before and after the program, and whose parents signed a letter of informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who do not complete the questionnaires at least twice

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Primary Prevention

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Prevention program: "In Favor of Resilient Self"
Prevention program: "In Favor of Resilient Self"

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Tel Hai Academic College	Kiryat Shmona	North Of Israel

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tel Hai College

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from Baseline in the Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance Questionnaire-4	The Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire (Schaefer et al., 2015) We included 3 subscales: Internalization - Thin/Low Body Fat, Internalization - Muscular/Athletic, Pressures - Media- 14 items	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale	Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965)- 10 items	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Eating Attitudes Test	Eating Attitudes Test- 26 items The Eating Attitudes validated scale for children and adolescents (Maloney, McGuire, & Daniels, 1988)	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Body Esteem Scale	Body Esteem Scale- 23 items Body Esteem Scale for adolescents & adults (Mendelson, Mendelson, & White, 2001) Weight, appearance and attribution subscales.	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Contingencies of Self Worth Scale	Contingencies of Self Worth Scale- 25 items (Crocker et al., 2003). We used 2 subscales: Appearance and Approval from others.	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Contour Drawing Rating Scale	Contour Drawing Rating Scale- 3 items The Figure Body Images (Collins et al., 1981). It contains 9 figures with gender differences, the participants need to choose the figure which reflects themselves and their ideal figure goal.	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores
Primary	Change from Baseline in Advertising Scale	The Advertising scale contains 1 item- Identification of strategies used by media. This question is reflected as a protective factor. It contains 8 different strategies (Golan et al., 2013).	Measured three times over six months, measuring a change in scores