title: Student bodies: psycho-education communities on the web.
abstract: We have developed a Web-delivered, multimedia health educational program, Student Bodies, designed to improve body satisfaction, a probable risk factor for the development of eating disorders in young women. The program includes psycho-educational content and a newsgroup for communication, and is delivered in a structured framework of weekly readings, assignments and postings to the newsgroup. Intervention group participants improved their body image, and reduced other attitudes that predispose to eating disorders.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dev
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Winzelberg
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Celio
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D020375:Education, Distance; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D012984:Software