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Table 1 Outline of content and targets of workshops #1 - #3 in the HBI programme

From: The Norwegian healthy body image programme: study protocol for a randomized controlled school-based intervention to promote positive body image and prevent disordered eating among Norwegian high school students

#1 Body image

Main content

Targets

 Project introduction

Experience of meaningfulness and motivation

 Influencing factors on body perception. What promotes and reduces positive body image, and how can we enforce the health promoting factors?

Body image and body acceptance

 Where does body idealization come from? Why does it conflict with positive body image, and potential health consequences from striving for the idealized body?

Psychoeducation to reduce idealization and internalization of a particular body ideal

 Fat talk and focus on lifestyle only related to appearance in everyday communication. To what degree do we participate, how does it make us feel, and can we reduce it?

Reduce fat talk and negative body talk

 Introduction to self-talk and self-esteem in WS#2

Stimulate motivation for next WS

#2 Media literacy

Main content

Targets

 Social media perception and use. Empower yourself to choose mood enhancing over mood destructive content

Enhance media literacy

 Extreme exposure without filter equals need to be critical to sources of information and awareness of retouching

Enhance media literacy

 The nature of comparison, how to recognize destructive comparison and reduce its presence in everyday life

Reduce amount of comparison

 Strengthen acceptance and love for individual differences, defining characteristics of ones’ own and among friends. Students write down compliments to a friend and him/herself unrelated to appearance

Improve positive self-talk

Improve self-compassion

 Experiences and benefits of positive self-talk

Improve skills to strengthen self-esteem

#3 Lifestyle

Main content

Targets

 Benefits on body experience from listening to bodily needs such as physical activity and healthy eating

Improve experience of embodiment

 Truths and myth about lifestyle products and literature

Improve ability to reject exercise and nutritional myths - health information literacy

 From aesthetic to functional focus; how can change in focus improve body experience and healthy lifestyle that again benefit well-being?

Change from potential unhealthy focus to healthy focus on the body

 How may regular exercise and smart nutrition promote positive body image and what are the basic recommendations?

Body experience enhancing attitudes and behaviours