Special Report: Improving Body Image in Middle School

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议开发一个互动的，以学校为基础的多媒体程序，解决身体不满的青少年（BDIA）称为特别报告：身体谈话。该计划将针对12至14岁的青少年，当成熟，身体形象和体重问题非常突出时。身体不满意被认为是身体失调和有害节食（如饮食失调）发作的最有力因素之一。通过使用包含引人入胜的视频、音频和图形功能的交互式CD-ROM，将通过新闻编辑室的形式提供教育，学生用户与屏幕上的青少年一起创作新闻故事，重点是身体成熟和健康饮食的教育，关于吸引力文化标准的媒体扫盲技能，以及身体形象问题。特别报告：身体谈话是一个45-50分钟的会议，将包括：（1）风险评估与定制的规范性反馈，（2）基本知识测试，（3）媒体素养意识练习，（4）个人相关的体重管理和营养教育，以及技能建设练习，以抵制与体重相关的戏弄，提高身体满意度。虽然该计划旨在在学校提供，但该计划灵活的独立设计将使其易于在其他环境中使用（例如，初级保健办公室、青年中心）。如果这样的计划证明在减少危险行为的有效性超过传统的教育方法，学校管理人员和健康教育工作者可能会认为这是一个理想的和成本效益的方式提供BDIA教育和预防初中和初中学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose the development of an interactive, school-based multimedia program that addresses body dissatisfaction in adolescents (BDIA) called Special Report: Body Talk. The proposed program will be designed for early adolescents, ages 12 to 14, when maturation, body image and weight concerns are highly salient. Body dissatisfaction is considered one of the most robust factors in the onset of body disturbances and harmful dieting, such as eating disorders. Through the use of an interactive CD-ROM incorporating engaging video, audio and graphic features, education will be delivered through a newsroom format where student users work with on-screen teens to create news stories focused on education of physical maturation and healthy eating, media literacy skills on cultural standards for attractiveness, and body image issues. Using empirically-sound prevention strategies, Special Report: Body Talk is one 45-50 minute session that will include: (1) risk assessment with tailored normative feedback, (2) basic knowledge test, (3) media literacy awareness exercise, (4) personally relevant education about weight management and nutrition, and skill building exercises to resist weight related teasing and increase body satisfaction. While the program is intended to be offered in school, the flexible self-contained design of the program will allow it to be readily used in other settings (e.g., primary care offices, youth centers). If such a program demonstrated effectiveness in reducing risk behaviors over traditional education approaches, school administrators and health educators would likely view it as a desirable and cost effective way to offer BDIA education and prevention to middle and junior high school students.