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Prevention & Media Literacy
Prevention programs have been shown to produce sustained reductions in eating disorder risk factors.
Prevention programs (including cognitive dissonance-based, school-based and mindfulness-based programs) demonstrate good efficacy, showing up to 51% reduction in at least one eating disorder risk factor(1).
Selective prevention interventions aimed at high-risk groups including females and adolescents over the age of 15, and delivered by professionals, may be most effective(1).
Media literacy programs
There is growing evidence around prevention programs that teach media literacy.
Exposure to social media can have a maladaptive effect on young people's body image and is associated with unrealistic body ideals and body dissatisfaction(2).
Equipping young people with the skills to critically appraise the images and content encountered online, and avoid negative comparisons, has shown to significantly reduce shape and weight concerns(3).
GPs can share evidence-based prevention programs and resources with clients, to help minimise eating disorder risk.
Media Smart: Media literacy program for early teens
Happy Being Me: Improving body esteem and self esteem
NEDC Media Literacy: Critically analyse messages in the media
FREED: Social Media & Apps
A guide to help address concerns about body image, eating disorders and mental health
Social Media & Eating Disorders
Research shows that exposure to media images depicting the thin-ideal body is related to body image concerns for women
CCI: Caring Less About Your Looks
7 Module course to overcome body dissatisfaction
CCI: Disordered Eating
Resources and information sheets about disordered eating, including a 14 module CBT-ED workbook, Break Free from ED
ED Safe Principles
A set of principles that will guide the ways that information about health, food, minds and body are provided to people across a wide range of settings. This is a key eating disorder prevention and harm minimisation initiative