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

Tel Hai College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Primary Prevention

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

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03216018

Tel-Hai College

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental: Prevention Program "In Favor of Resilient Self"

Experimental group

Description:

The program "In Favor of Resilient Self" delivered to adolescence aged 15-17, over 3 months. The program contained nine weekly 90-min sessions that focus on enhancing self- resilience, self-esteem, self-image, body image. All participants will complete a self-report questionnaire at baseline, conclusion and 3 months after program conclusion.

Treatment:

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

No Intervention: control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group didn't receive the intervention program, instead they received a lesson on healthy nutrition. The control group will complete the same self-report questionnaire as the intervention group at baseline, conclusion and 3 months after program conclusion.