Celebrandome: Preliminary Study

The Dove Self Esteem Project, has provided our research team with funding to develop a 60- minute workshop for Hispanic/Latinx Youth between the ages of 11 to 16 years old that builds body confidence. This workshop was developed based on prior curriculum the investigator has developed for The Dove Self Esteem Project and designed with two teachers and several adolescent children. The aims of the current study are to: 1) examine the efficacy of the workshop, and 2.) evaluate the extent to which children like the curriculum and find it useful. Children will be randomized to control group or intervention group; however, the control group will eventually go through the workshop after 2 surveys. It is hypothesized that children in the intervention group will report higher body satisfaction scores, greater self- esteem, more awareness of body talk and less engagement in appearance comparisons relative to the control group. It is hypothesized that children will report liking the workshop, finding it useful and engaging.