#KindGirlsInACTion: A Programme for the Promotion of Mental Health of Female Adolescents (KindGirlsACT)

#KindGirlsInACTion: A School-based Intervention to Promote Compassive Competences and Psychological Flexibility in Female Adolescents

The #KindGirlsInACTion project started in 2017 and developed and implemented a psychotherapeutic intervention program in Portuguese female adolescents. This program aimed to improve the overall quality of life and well-being of the participants, and specifically to promote a qualitative improvement in body image and interpersonal relationships, through the promotion of self-compassion, compassion and psychological flexibility. #KindGirlsInACTion is a school-based program, with 9 sessions over 9 weeks. It is essentially practical and interactive, with exercises created specifically for the program, as well as the regular practice of mindfulness.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Body Image; Emotion Regulation; Eating Disorders; Eating Behavior; Psychological; Relations, Interpersonal
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: #KindGirlsInACTion

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 120
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Portugal
  • Coimbra, Portugal, 3000-115
    • CINEICC

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• being a female adolescent;
• being aged between 12 and 18;
• being a part of a classroome with immediate availability to attend the sessions.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having a clinical condition that could compromise the completion of self-report questionnaires;
• Having a significant score on screening measures administered pre-intervention.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental group; The experimental group was administered a 9-sessions weekly programme in the school context. It completed three assessment moments: pre-intervention, post-intervention and a 3-months after the intervention follow-up.	Behavioral: #KindGirlsInACTion; 9-session weekly cognitive-behavioural intervention to promote psychological well-being and prevent body image and eating-related disordered behaviours.
No Intervention: Control group; The control group did not receive any intervention. It completed three assessment moments: pre-intervention, post-intervention and a 3-months after the intervention follow-up.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Psychological Well-being	Kidscreen-27	5 months
Psychological Well-being	Kidscreen-27	3 months
Psychological Wel--being	Kidscreen-27	Baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Eating Disorders	Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire, EDE-Q	Baseline
Eating Disorders	Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire, EDE-Q	3 months
Eating Disorders	Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire, EDE-Q	5 months
Positive body image	Body Appreciation Scale, BAS-2	Baseline
Positive body image	Body Appreciation Scale, BAS-2	3 months
Positive body image	Body Appreciation Scale, BAS-2	5 months
Social safeness	Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, SSPS	Baseline
Social safeness	Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, SSPS	3 months
Social safeness	Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, SSPS	5 months
Body image shame	Body Image Shame Scale, BISS	Baseline
Body image shame	Body Image Shame Scale, BISS	3 months
Body image shame	Body Image Shame Scale, BISS	5 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Coimbra
• Collaborators: Joana Marta-Simões

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): September 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 28, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): September 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 15, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 25, 2021
• First Posted (Actual): December 8, 2021

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 8, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 25, 2021
• Last Verified: November 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Adolescence; Psychological well-being; Compassion; School-based; Psychological flexibility; Girls; Intervention Programme; Positive body image
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Feeding and Eating Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: #KindGirlsInACTion

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No