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

"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."

"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."