Effectiveness of a Self-guided Mobile Phone Application in Improving the Way we See Ourselves and Our Bodies

Summary

Body image concerns are pervasive and can impact multiple aspects of a person's life. Individuals with negative body image tend to have negative thoughts and feelings about their bodies, often resulting in unhealthy behaviours. Negative body image is also associated with mental and physical health conditions. Thus, prevention efforts are crucial to alleviating body image concerns in young adults as they are considered high-risk populations.

This study is a randomised controlled trial that aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-guided body image program on a mobile-based application for young adults.

Hypothesis 1a: The intervention group will improve significantly on measures of body image at post-intervention and follow-up, as compared to the control group.

Hypothesis 1b: The intervention group will reduce significantly on measures of appearance-ideal internalization, media and peer pressures at post-intervention and follow-up, as compared to the control group.

Hypothesis 2: The intervention group will improve significantly on the measure of self-compassion at post intervention and follow-up, as compared to the control group.

Conditions

• Body Image

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-guided programme on body image

Participants will download the application from the App store or Google Play store for free. In both programs, participants engage in content learning and short activities daily on the phone application. The anticipated time participants will spend on each program is comparable, of about less than five minutes per day. Participants complete the same set of questionnaires immediately after completing the program (post-intervention measure), and again at 4 weeks after completing the program (follow-up measure). At the end of the six weeks data collection period, all participants will be debriefed about the purpose of the study. Participants in the active wait-list control condition will be given access to the body image program.

BEHAVIORAL

Self-guided programme on cooperation

Participants will download the application from the App store or Google Play store for free. In both programs, participants engage in content learning and short activities daily on the phone application. The anticipated time participants will spend on each program is comparable, of about less than five minutes per day. Participants complete the same set of questionnaires immediately after completing the program (post-intervention measure), and again at 4 weeks after completing the program (follow-up measure). At the end of the six weeks data collection period, all participants will be debriefed about the purpose of the study. Participants in the active wait-list control condition will be given access to the body image program.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Intellect Pte. Ltd.

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• National University of Singapore

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-08-25

Primary Completion

2022-01-10

Completion

2022-01-10

Countries

• Singapore

Study Locations