RecruitingACTRN12625000770460

Piloting a Co-Designed Digital Body Image Intervention for Young Australian Women


Sponsor

Lauren Conboy - University of South Australia

Enrollment

38 participants

Start Date

Jun 1, 2025

Study Type

Interventional

Conditions

Summary

The aim of this study is to test the feasibility, efficacy, and acceptability of a co-designed digital body image intervention, a website, intended to provide non-clinical adult women with cognitive behavioural, psychoeducational, and media and health literacy activities. We hypothesise that relative to pre-intervention, participants in the treatment group would report decreased body dissatisfaction and ideal internalisations, and higher body acceptance and health confidence at post-intervention. We hypothesise sustained effects at one -month follow-up, compared to a wait list control group. We also aimed to learn more about how treatment group participants would rate the website in acceptability, and how the website could be improved. By evaluating the efficacy of the present co-designed website, there is potential to address the gap in scalable, user-centred body image interventions that are suitable for preventative and early care.


Eligibility

Sex: FemalesMin Age: 18 YearssMax Age: 35 Yearss

Plain Language Summary

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Body image concerns are widespread among young women in Australia, and many people who struggle with how they feel about their bodies do not meet the threshold for a clinical eating disorder — meaning they often fall through the gaps of available support. This study is testing a co-designed digital intervention: a website developed with input from young women, offering practical activities based on cognitive behavioural therapy, psychoeducation, and media literacy to help improve body image and body acceptance. Participants will be randomly assigned to either use the website immediately or be placed on a waiting list. Researchers will measure changes in body dissatisfaction, body acceptance, and health confidence immediately after the programme and again one month later. This study is for women aged 18 to 35 living in Australia who experience body dissatisfaction but have not been diagnosed with an eating disorder in the past five years. Participants must identify as women and be willing to engage with the digital programme online.

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Interventions

School of Self-Acceptance is a web-based intervention comprised of six modules. The modules include components of psychoeducation, media and health literacy, and body acceptance, with a range of cogni

School of Self-Acceptance is a web-based intervention comprised of six modules. The modules include components of psychoeducation, media and health literacy, and body acceptance, with a range of cognitive-behavioural and mindfulness activities. The website was co-designed by women with lived experience of body dissatisfaction and relevant mental health experts through interviews, focus groups, and a feedback survey. The website is designed for individuals to work through independently without guidance from a facilitator and is intended to be completed individually. In our RCT the participants will be given two weeks to work through the six modules, each taking approximately 30 minutes to complete, and due to the digital nature, they can be completed at a time and place of their choosing. The intervention is not designed to be tailored; however, individuals will likely gravitate more to activities that align with their interests. Participant self-reporting will determine adherence, e.g., "do you believe you read, watched, and understood the provided information?" with responses Yes/No/Maybe and text options for additional context.


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ACT,NSW,NT,QLD,SA,TAS,WA,VIC, Australia

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