Pragmatic randomized controlled trial of the Mind Management Skills for Life Programme as an intervention for occupational burnout in mental healthcare professionals.

Background: Occupational burnout is highly prevalent in the mental healthcare workforce and associated with poorer job satisfaction, performance and outcomes.

Aims: To evaluate the effects of the Mind Management Skills for Life Programme on burnout and wellbeing.

Methods:  = 173 mental health nurses were recruited from the English National Health Service during the acute phase of the COVID-19 crisis.

Experimental analysis of the impact of body comparison on non-clinical women.

Background And Objectives: Two experimental studies examined the impact that body comparison has on women's body satisfaction and self-esteem. The two studies differed in the use of a human comparator or an avatar (non-human) comparator. The independent variables were the type of body comparison (upward, downward and neutral) and the perceived personality of the comparator.

Does comparison of self with others influence body image among adult women? An experimental study in naturalistic settings.

Background And Objectives: It has been suggested that body comparison is a safety behavior in eating disorders. This experimental study investigates the causal impact of upward and downward body comparison on body image, eating pathology, self-esteem, anxiety and mood. It also considers whether trait body comparison and eating pathology are associated with responsiveness to upward and downward comparison.

The development of a body comparison measure: the CoSS.

Purpose: This study reports on the development and validation of a brief and widely applicable measure of body comparison (the Comparison of Self-Scale-CoSS), which is a maintaining feature of eating disorders.

Methods: A sample of 412 adults completed the CoSS, an existing measure of aspects of body comparison, and eating pathology and associated states. Test-retest reliability was examined over 2 weeks.