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  • Titel: Feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of a school-based prevention programme for eating disorders: Cluster randomised controlled trial
  • Beteiligte: Sharpe, Helen; Schober, Ilka; Treasure, Janet; Schmidt, Ulrike
  • Erschienen: Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2013
  • Erschienen in: British Journal of Psychiatry
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.113.128199
  • ISSN: 0007-1250; 1472-1465
  • Schlagwörter: Psychiatry and Mental health
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p>Body image dissatisfaction during adolescence is common but not benign. School-based interventions have the potential for wide reach, but scalability of previous programmes is limited by a reliance on external facilitators.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aims</jats:title><jats:p>To assess the acceptability, feasibility and efficacy of a teacher-delivered body image intervention.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method</jats:title><jats:p>A pilot clustered randomised controlled trial in which 16 classes of adolescent girls were allocated to a 6-session body image programme (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 261), or usual curriculum control (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 187) (registration: ISRCTN42594993).</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Students in the intervention group had significantly improved body esteem and self-esteem and reduced thin-ideal internalisation. Effects for body esteem and thin-ideal internalisation were maintained for 3 months. There were no group differences for eating pathology, peer factors or depression. Acceptability, feasibility and efficacy varied between schools.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions</jats:title><jats:p>Teacher-delivered body image lessons have promise but further work is needed to increase efficacy and make interventions suitable across a range of schools.</jats:p></jats:sec>
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