Efficacy of a school-media literacy-based programme in the prevention of disordered eating

ISRCTN	ISRCTN07896919
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN07896919
Protocol serial number	N/A
Sponsor	Ministry of Science and Innovation (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) (Spain)
Funders	Ministry of Science and Technology (Spain) (ref: BSO 2002-03689), Ministry of Education and Science (Spain) (ref: SEJ 2005-07099)

Submission date: 05/11/2008
Registration date: 11/12/2008
Last edited: 19/05/2011

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Dr Rosa M Raich
Scientific

Dept. Psicología Clínica y de la Salud
Facultad de Psicología
Universidad Autónoma De Barcelona
Campus Universitari, Edifici B
Cerdanyola del Vallès
Barcelona
08193
Spain

Phone	+34 93 581 3170
Email	rosa.raich@uab.cat

Study information

Primary study design	Interventional
Study design	Cluster randomised controlled multi-centre trial
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study type	Participant information sheet
Scientific title	Interactive school-based disordered eating prevention programme in adolescent girls: general and specific effects
Study objectives	A school-media literacy-based prevention programme is effective in improving eating attitudes and reducing the influences of the Beauty Ideal from baseline scores to post-test and six months follow-up.
Ethics approval(s)	Terrassa Health and Social Welfare Institute (Institut Municipal de la Salut i Benestar Social - IMSBS), approved in February 2005
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Disordered eating
Intervention	The trial was carried out in seven schools. The prevention programme consists of two components: Nutrition component (Nut): One 90-minute talk. Topics include: Balanced eating concept, concept and differentiation between eating and nutrition, nutrients, food pyramid and foods, importance of water, analysis of menus Media Literacy component (ML): Two 90-minute talks + two 60-minute activity sessions. The topics of the talks include: "Feminine beauty ideal", "How to deal with media messages". The activity sessions include analysis of advertising and writing model letters of complaint to the media. These interventions were developed from a previous version shorter and without activities (Raich, et al (2008): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18443983). The programme is described in a manual: Raich et al (2008). Eating, Feminine Beauty Ideal and the Media. How to train critical secondary students (Alimentación, modelo estético femenino y medios de comunicación. Cómo formar alumnos críticos en educación secundaria) (2nd edition) Barcelona: Graó. ISBN: 978-84-7827-644-8: http://www.grao.com/libros/ficha.asp?ID=686. Each school was randomly allocated to one of the following three trial arms: 1. Complete programme (Nut + ML): one session per week for five weeks 2. Partial programme (ML): one session per week for four weeks 3. Control group: no interventions (classes as usual) Contact details of co-investigators: Jordi Fauquet Ars (jordi.fauquet@uab.cat) Gemma López-Guimerà (gemma.lopez@uab.cat) Mariona Portell Vidal (mariona.portell@uab.cat) David Sánchez-Carracedo (david.sanchez@uab.cat)
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure(s)	1. Eating Attitudes Test (Spanish adaptation) 2. Questionnaire on Influences of Aesthetic Body Ideal-26 (CIMEC) The primary and secondary outcomes were assessed at baseline, post-test (one week after the last activity "Letter of complaint to the media") and six months.
Key secondary outcome measure(s)	The primary outcome measures above were assessed for participants who completed the "analysis of advertising" and the "letters of complaint to the media" activities. The primary and secondary outcomes were assessed at baseline, post-test (one week after the last activity "Letter of complaint to the media") and six months.
Completion date	02/06/2006

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Child
Lower age limit	13 Years
Sex	Female
Target sample size at registration	263
Key inclusion criteria	Second-grade (eight-grade in USA; 13 years) female students in Spanish secondary education.
Key exclusion criteria	Does not meet the inclusion criteria
Date of first enrolment	27/10/2005
Date of final enrolment	02/06/2006

Locations

Countries of recruitment

Spain

Study participating centre

Dept. Psicología Clínica y de la Salud

Barcelona
08193
Spain

Results and Publications

Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	01/05/2011		Yes	No
Participant information sheet	Participant information sheet	11/11/2025	11/11/2025	No	Yes