Investigating the Effect of Life Skills Training on the Attitude of Female Students towards Cosmetic Medicine Interventions

Bahmani, Afshin; Gharibi, Fardin; Baleshzar, Nooshin; Chawshin, Shiwa

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Volume 13, Issue 1 (1-2025)

Iran J Health Educ Health Promot 2025, 13(1): 429-438

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Investigating the Effect of Life Skills Training on the Attitude of Female Students towards Cosmetic Medicine Interventions

Afshin Bahmani ^*

, Fardin Gharibi

, Nooshin Baleshzar

, Shiwa Chawshin

Abstract: (256 Views)

Background and Objectives: Cosmetic surgery is defined as a method of maintaining, restoring, or enhancing the physical appearance through surgical and medical techniques, and considering that in recent years, people's attention and interest in surgical and non-surgical methods have greatly increased and about 90% of these procedures are performed by women. This study aimed to determine the effect of life skills training on the attitude of female students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences towards cosmetic medicine interventions.

Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 80 female dormitory students of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in 1402 in two randomly selected intervention and control groups. Data were collected using the demographic and attitude toward cosmetic surgery (ACSS) and body image fear (BICI) questionnaires. Training was conducted in 6 one-hour sessions for 3 weeks in a face-to-face manner using a question and answer method. Descriptive statistics (frequency, mean, and standard deviation) and analytical statistics including independent t-tests and paired t-test were used to analyze the data and Spearman correlation were used to analyze the data.

Results: The participants in the study before the intervention were homogeneous in terms of demographic variables and average score (ACSS) and (BICI) (P ≥ 0.05). After the educational intervention, there was a significant difference between the average score of (ACSS) and (BICI) in both the test and control groups (P ≤ 0.05). The test group participants had a significant decrease in the average score (ACSS) and (BICI).

Conclusions: Life skills training was able to help the intervention group students reduce their body image fears by improving skills such as informed decision-making, management, and coping with their loss in a healthy way. Therefore, the results of the present study confirm the effectiveness of life skills training on female students' attitudes towards cosmetic medicine interventions.

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Keywords: Attitude, Cosmetic Surgery, Body Image Concern Inventory, Life Skills, Students

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Health Promotion Interventions
Received: 2024/07/23 | Accepted: 2024/11/22

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