Piloting a Co-Designed Digital Body Image Intervention for Young Australian Women
Lauren Conboy - University of South Australia
38 participants
Jun 1, 2025
Interventional
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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.
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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 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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ACTRN12625000770460