From Self-Doubt to Pride: Understanding the Empowering Effects of Delivering School-Based Wellness Programmes for Emerging Adult Facilitators-A Qualitative Study.

Ample literature exists on the impact of prevention programmes on their target audience, while much less is known about how delivering such programmes influences their facilitators. Even less literature exists on the emotional and social processes that form this potential impact on facilitators. The current study analysed qualitative in-depth, non-structured interviews, as well as written essays provided by 33 student-facilitators who delivered the "Favoring Myself" programme in Israel during 2019-2021.

Non-Cooperation within a School-Based Wellness Program during the COVID-19 Pandemic-A Qualitative Research.

This paper presents a qualitative analysis of COVID-19's impact on the development, delivery, and uptake of "Favoring Myself", a school-based interactive wellness program conducted via Zoom during 2020-2021. "Favoring Myself" targets resilience, self-esteem, body-esteem, self-care behaviors, and media literacy among 5th-grade preadolescents. Data were obtained from meetings, 23 semi-structured interviews with parents, teachers, and principals, and other modes of correspondence.

Eating and Control Styles Axis in Mentalisation-Based Psychotherapy in Eating Disorders: A Randomised Clinical Trial.

Background: Clinicians need an instrument that helps their patients with eating disorders (ED) to explore their agent's inner intentions and confront negative behaviour and control styles.

Objectives: To assess the feasibility and impact of an eating and control styles axis (ECOSA) during the first 8 months of mentalisation-based psychotherapy with a community-based sample of ED patients.

Methods: Six experienced therapists and their consecutively admitted patients were randomly allocated to the intervention and control groups.

The Impact of Delivering School-Based Wellness Programs for Emerging Adult Facilitators-A Quasi-Controlled Clinical Trial.

A quasi-controlled clinical trial included a university-based supervision course for facilitators of an interactive wellness school-based program. The study aimed to investigate how students that facilitate prevention programs are personally affected by delivering content related to self-esteem, body-image, and media literacy. In total, 66 university students who were either facilitators of preventive programs (intervention group) or non-facilitators (comparison group) completed questionnaires before, after, and three months following the program’s termination.

Feasibility and effect of adding a concurrent parental component to a school-based wellness program using two modes of mobile-based technology - mixed methods evaluation of RCT.

Background: This study assessed the feasibility and effect of two mobile modes (WhatsApp vs. a specially designed app) in their delivery of updates and assignments to parents.

Methods: Two three-armed, randomized, controlled feasibility studies were conducted.

The SHED Index: a tool for assessing a Sustainable HEalthy Diet.

Purpose: Promoting sustainable diets through sustainable food choices is essential for achieving the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. Establishing a practical tool that can measure and score sustainable and healthy eating is highly important.

Methods: We established a 30-item questionnaire to evaluate sustainable-dietary consumption.

The risk of developing disordered eating following a family-based program among children with overweight and obesity and their siblings: Retrospective and prospective analyses.

Background: Studies have raised the concern that dieting and weight-loss programs may be a potential risk factor for developing eating disorders, and may have a potential to affect siblings as well. This study assessed the long-term risk of developing disordered eating among children with overweight and obesity and their siblings as well as the change in the obesogenic environment following a family-based intervention program.

Methods: In a 30-month retrospective follow-up study (n=18 families in intervention group, n=26 families in control group, total of 81 children and siblings) and a 14-month prospective follow-up study (n=42 families, 78 children and siblings), families with one or more children with overweight or obesity ages 8-14 years participated in a multidisciplinary parent-child program called "Maccabi Active".

School-based versus after-school delivery of a universal wellness programme - A randomized controlled multi-arm trial.

Unlabelled: Positive self-image and body image as well as high self-esteem and media literacy are considered protective factors against health-compromising behaviours. Investigation of the optimal setting for body image prevention programmes is important to maximize outcomes from such programmes. Most universal wellness programmes are school based and thus delivered to a "captive" population.

Girls-only vs. mixed-gender groups in the delivery of a universal wellness programme among adolescents: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.

Background: Investigation of the optimal setting for body image prevention programmes is important to maximize the outcomes of such programmes.

Objectives: We examined the preferred setting for a school-based wellness programme called "In Favour of Myself".

Methods: A total of 259 girls (mean 13.

Gender related differences in response to "in favor of myself" wellness program to enhance positive self & body image among adolescents.

Background: Physical, neurological and psychological changes are often experienced differently by male and female adolescents. Positive self-esteem, emotional well-being, school achievements, and family connectedness are considered as protective factors against health-compromising behaviors. This study examines the gender differences in respect to the effect of a school-based interactive wellness program--"In Favor of Myself"--on self-image, body image, eating attitudes and behaviors of young adolescents.

The effect of "in favor of myself": preventive program to enhance positive self and body image among adolescents.

Background: Positive self-esteem, emotional well-being, school achievements and family connectedness are considered protective factors against health-compromising behaviors. This study examined the effect of an interactive, community-based, media literacy and dissonance wellness program, In Favor of Myself, on the self-image, body image, eating attitudes and behavior of young adolescents. A preliminary cohort study was conducted among 972 program participants who did not take part in the controlled trial.

Parenting and the parallel processes in parents' counseling supervision for eating-related problems.

This paper presents an integrative model for supervising counselors of parents who face eating-related problems in their families. The model is grounded in the theory of parallel processes which occur during the supervision of health-care professionals as well as the counseling of parents and patients. The aim of this model is to conceptualize components and processes in the supervision space, in order to: (a) create a nurturing environment for health-care facilitators, parents and children, (b) better understand the complex and difficult nature of parenting, the challenge counselors face, and the skills and practices used in parenting and in counseling, and (c) better own practices and oppose the judgment that often dominates in counseling and supervision.

Health perceptions, self and body image, physical activity and nutrition among undergraduate students in Israel.

Purpose: This study examines health perceptions, self and body image, physical exercise and nutrition among undergraduate students.

Methods: A structured, self-reported questionnaire was administered to more than 1500 students at a large academic institute in Israel. The study population was heterogenic in both gender and fields of academic study.

The journey from opposition to recovery from eating disorders: multidisciplinary model integrating narrative counseling and motivational interviewing in traditional approaches.

Background: In the world of today's of ever-briefer therapies and interventions, people often seem more interested in outcome than process. This paper focuses on the processes used by a multidisciplinary team in the journey from opposition to change to recovery from eating disorders. The approach outlined is most relevant to those with severe and enduring illness.

Parenting styles and eating disorder pathology.

Our objective was to investigate the association between parenting style and eating disorder symptoms in patients treated in an intensive outpatient center for eating disorders. The study design is a cross-sectional survey set in a community-based facility for eating disorders. Participants included 53 families, including 32 with a child meeting the DSM-IV criteria for anorexia nervosa, 18 for bulimia nervosa, and 3 diagnosed ED-NOS.

Self-monitoring in anorexia nervosa.

Background: A possible connection between Mark Snyder's concept of self-monitoring and anorexia nervosa (AN) has not previously been examined.

Aims: We hypothesized that AN symptomatology correlates positively with the Other-Directedness aspect of Snyder's self-monitoring construct and negatively with its Extraversion aspect.

Method: 194 women with a history of AN were classified as currently ill (n = 17), partially recovered (n = 106) and recovered (n = 71).

An integrative quantitative model of factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa over time.

Objective: To identify factors influencing the course of anorexia nervosa (AN) over time.

Method: Former female patients with AN (36 remitted and 24 nonremitted) and 31 healthy females responded to standardized interviews and self-rating questionnaires. Remitted patients maintained normal eating, normal weight, and regular menses for the past 12 months.

Parenting styles and weight-related symptoms and behaviors with recommendations for practice.

With the incidence of eating disorders increasing in recent years, the role of parents in the pathology of these illnesses is of great interest, particularly the impact of their parenting style. Few studies have investigated the connection between parenting styles and adolescent eating disorders. Reviewed here are key studies on parenting style categorized into the following four broad areas related to eating disorder pathology: food-related symptoms, feeding style, research on ethnic populations, and populations with eating disorders.

Parents as agents of change in childhood obesity--from research to practice.

The home environment is undoubtedly the most important setting in relation to shaping children's eating and physical activity behaviors. Family-based behavioral treatment is the most well-established intervention for the treatment of childhood obesity. Historically, family based interventions target the obese child and at least one or both parents.

Anorexia nervosa, perfectionism, and dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4).

The dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4), a well-characterized, polymorphic gene, is an attractive candidate for contributing risk to disordered eating and anorexia nervosa (AN). We tested association using UNPHASED for 5 DRD4 polymorphic loci, 3 promoter region SNPs (C-521T, C-616G, A-809G), the 120 bp promoter region tandem duplication and the exon III repeat, in 202 AN trios and 418 control families. Since perfectionism characterizes AN, we tested these five loci for association with the Child and Adolescent Perfectionism Scale (CAPS) in the AN and control groups.

Childhood obesity treatment: targeting parents exclusively v. parents and children.

There is a consensus that interventions to prevent and treat childhood obesity should involve the family; however, the extent of the child's involvement has received little attention. The goal of the present study was to evaluate the relative efficacy of treating childhood obesity via a family-based health-centred intervention, targeting parents alone v. parents and obese children together.

9-cis beta-carotene-rich powder of the alga Dunaliella bardawil increases plasma HDL-cholesterol in fibrate-treated patients.

The effect of fibrates on high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol levels is suggested to be mediated by its binding to peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARalpha). Upon ligand binding, PPARalpha heterodimerizes with the 9-cis retinoic acid receptor (RXR) and it is this heterodimer which regulates gene expression. We assessed the hypothesis that a combined treatment with fibrate plus 9-cis beta-carotene-rich powder of the alga Dunaliella bardawil, as a source of 9-cis retinoic acid, would improve the drug's effect on HDL-cholesterol levels.

Managing eating disorders in the natural environment: intensive vs. limited programs.

Objective: To evaluate stratified management of care for eating disorders in community services using a personalized program (2-20 hours weekly) delivered in a therapeutic center by a multidisciplinary team, or in the patients' natural environment by clinical mentors.

Method: Sixty females with anorexia nervosa and 63 with bulimia nervosa attended the program voluntarily. Symptoms and global outcome were assessed using the Anorexic Outcome Scale.