Body Image and Self-esteem in Adolescence

Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Body Image

Treatments: Other: Body Image evaluation; Other: Self esteem evaluation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04043117

Dimorphism and Self-esteem

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the difference between body image and self-esteem scores during and at the end of the medical. Hypothesis: body image and self-esteem changes during the oncological treatments.

Full description

Body image and self-esteem represent important variables linked to adolescents' development. These two variables are the most affected in patients with the oncological disease.

The consequences of a visible difference may have a significant impact on behaviour and mood, causing relevant impairments in individuals well-being and quality of life. Among different personal attributes, self-esteem may be the one with the greatest impact on body image (Cash, 2002). Indeed previous studies have investigated different features of body image and self-esteem (Webster & Tiggemann, 2003), showing that they have a significant influence on the overall well-being (Cash & Fleming, 2002), and that those aspects are also significantly influenced by age and gender. The patients are evaluated at T0 (within the first week of hospitalization after diagnosis), T1 (within 3 months after diagnosis), T2 (within 6 months after diagnosis), T3 (within 12 months after diagnosis, at the end of cancer treatment), according to a follow-up study design. Data analysis: r Pearson's correlation, repeated measure ANOVA and regression analysis will be carried out to investigate relations between studied variables and eventual changes over time. Analyses are performed using SPSS software (Chicago, S. P. S. S. SPSS Inc; 2008. SPSS Statistics, 17.)

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria for patients:

• Age between 12 and 19 years
• Adequate knowledge of the Italian language
• Consent to participation
• First diagnosis for oncological pathology of leukaemia or bone cancer

Exclusion criteria for pediatric patients:

• Patients under the age of 12 or over 19 years
• Not adequate knowledge of the Italian language
• Patients who have a relapse with respect to the pathology already treated
• Patients with previous oncological diseases
• Cognitive disability
• Patients with brain tumours
• Patients with gender dysphoria
• Absence of informed consent
• Previous diagnosis of Anxiety or Depression
• Diagnosis of an eating disorder

Trial design

14 participants in 1 patient group

Clinical Group

Description:

Group is composed by 12-19 years adolescents with a tumor (excluding brain tumor). Every patient included in the group complete the assessment including: evaluation of self-esteem (TMA test) and body image (BUT test, I-BICI test and Human Figure Drawing).

Treatment:

Other: Self esteem evaluation

Other: Body Image evaluation