Prevention Program Promoting Self Resilience,Positive Self-Image and Body Image Among Adolescence Aged 15-17

Primary Prevention Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02653586
• Other study ID #: telhaicolege
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 3, 2016
• Last updated: May 7, 2017
• Start date: May 2013
• Est. completion date: August 2014

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Tel Hai College
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study was a group randomized controlled trial. Within each school Classes of high school students were allocated by randomization to the intervention or control group by a function Randomization in Excel 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, received information about the program and the study and were choose whether to provided informed consent or not.

Description:

Participants and setting Two high schools were recruited for the study, in each school classes from grades 9th and 10th were chosen to participate in the study all mixed gender classes. The two high schools are in northern Israel, one in a rural area and the second in a small city, both serving the Jewish population. The size of the schools were similar. All data were collected within the school setting.

Program description "Towards a more resilient self" is an interactive, cognitive behavior program aiming to address low resilience, low self-esteem and body dissatisfaction. The 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 received one session of 90 minutes with health nutrition education.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 209
• Est. completion date: August 2014
• Est. primary completion date: May 2014
• 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 if their parents have signed a letter of agreement

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants who do not completed the questionnaires at least twice

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Primary Prevention

Intervention

Other:
• program "In Favor of Resilience Self"
A prevention program aiming at improve self-resilience ,self-esteem and body image, contains nine interactive activities, based on a cognitive dissonance method.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Tel Hai College	Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC)	The CD-RISC contains 25 items, all of which carry a 5-point range of responses, as follows: not true at all (0), rarely true (1), sometimes true (2), often true (3), and true nearly all of the time (4). The scale is rated based on how the subject has felt over the past month. The total score ranges from 0-100, with higher scores reflecting greater resilience. Examples of questions: "Able to adapt to change", "Think of self as strong person"	Measured three times during six months, measuring a change in resilience scale
Primary	Rosenberg self esteem scale	The scale is a ten item Likert scale with items answered on a four point scale - from strongly agree- (3), agree (2), disagree (1), strongly disagree (0). The total score ranges from 0-30 The higher the score, the higher the self esteem.; to strongly disagree.	Measured three times during six months, measuring a change in rosenberg self esteem scale