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Dissemination & Implementation Science

Community-Partnered Implementation in Diverse Settings: Strategies for Identifying and Tailoring Solutions to Implementation of Novel Interventions

2 - (SYM 32) The Impact of the Body Justice Project for Early Adolescents: Using Community-engaged Research to Implement School-based Body Image Interventions

Friday, November 15, 2024
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Location: Liberty C, Level 3, Downtown Marriott
Abstract Body
For the past three years, our research team has conducted community-engaged body image intervention development and participatory research with a team of middle school students and staff and undergraduate students and faculty. This work resulted in an adapted, evidence-based body image intervention for delivery in a middle school context, with college student intervention leadership (near peers) and middle school student co-leadership. The Body Justice intervention consists of 8 brief sessions (6 hours total) with justice-focused body image content (e.g., cultural appearance ideals, diversity representation within media, food culture). We will conclude our second implementation trial with 113 7th grade students in the spring of 2024. An initial trial was completed in 2023 with 206 7th and 8th grade students (data analysis ongoing). Across these two trials, students and the teachers who hosted the curriculum in their classes self-reported the acceptability of the Body Justice intervention. Students reported their eating disorder and body image risk factors and perception of their school climate around appearance judgment and teasing before and after the curriculum and two months later. The presentation will report on the feasibility, acceptability, and impact of this community-designed intervention on eating disorder risk and school climate around appearance pressures. Data will be shared from both implementation trials; early results from the initial trial show that disordered eating behaviors significantly decreased across a three month period (from 48.2% of students reporting one or more unhealthy weight control behavior before the Body Justice Project to 30.2% reporting one or more behavior at 2-month follow-up). Implications for collaborative school-based research, body image and eating disorders prevention, and community-engaged methods to foster equity will be discussed.