NCT04665557

Evaluating Dove Confident Me Single Session in Indonesia

Completed NA Last updated 25 July 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Dove Confident Me Indonesia Single Session in Body Image in 1,926 participants. Completed in 1 July 2022.

Timeline

1 March 2021

Primary endpoint
4 April 2022

1 July 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of the West of England
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	1,926
Start date	1 March 2021
Primary completion	4 April 2022
Estimated completion	1 July 2022
Sites	1 location across United Kingdom

Drugs / interventions tested

• Dove Confident Me Indonesia Single Session

Conditions studied

• Body Image — all drugs for Body Image →

Sponsor

University of the West of England

Who can join

Adults 11 to 15, any sex, with Body Image. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Negative body image is an important public health concern for young people due to its prevalence and detrimental impact on young people's health, education, and social life. Encouragingly, a number of interventions have been designed to improve adolescent body image in school settings, with promising results. However, the vast majority of studies testing these interventions are conducted in high-income, English speaking countries, despite increasingly recognition that negative body image is a global concern. As such, it is important to develop and disseminate interventions to foster positive body image among adolescents in low-to-middle income countries, too.

Research indicates high prevalence rates of negative body image among adolescents in many Asian countries. Indonesia - the focus of the present research - is an emerging middle-income country in South East Asia. A recent U-Report Poll (UNICEF, 2020) found almost 80% of the young people surveyed wanted to change something about their appearance, suggesting a degree of body dissatisfaction and approximately 50% stopped themselves from doing something that was important to them because of appearance concerns. Moreover, according to the same poll, over 90% of Indonesian adolescents surveyed reported to wanting to learn ways to improve their body image in school or online.

To date, no body image interventions have been adapted and trialled in Indonesia. Therefore, this project aims to evaluate the effectiveness as well as the acceptability and feasibility of a specially adapted version of Dove Confident Me Single Session among Indonesian adolescents that will be integrated into UNICEF's Life Skills Education curriculum. Notably, the session has been designed to be feasible to deliver in low-resource schools (e.g., that do not access to the internet or facilities to show videos or PowerPoint slides).

To assess the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of the intervention, the study will compare the body image and well-being of students who take part in the programme to students who do not take part in any programme (classes as usual). Investigators will also gather in-depth feedback from students, and teachers via focus groups and surveys, in order to inform future improvement of the programme for wider implementation.

To undertake this project, the investigators will recruit students and teachers from approximately 10 state junior secondary schools in Indonesia via a local research agency. Students will complete questionnaire assessments of body image and well-being before and after programme period, and again 8 weeks later to assess longer-term benefits.

COVID response: In light of the ongoing pandemic, some research activities will take place online. Decisions on delivery format (online / in-person / hybrid) were made on the basis of continued risk assessments and considerations of local government guidelines.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. 'Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session': study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents.
   Craddock N, Garbett KM, Haywood S, Nasution K, et al · · 2021 · cited 6× · PMID 34784916 · DOI 10.1186/s12889-021-11770-0