Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Roblox Video Game (Super U Story) in Improving Body Image Among Children and Adolescents in the United States: Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Body dissatisfaction is a global public health issue negatively impacting young people's mental and physical well-being, underscoring an urgent need to develop early interventions. Emerging evidence suggests that microinterventions are acceptable and effective in delivering mental health interventions. Given the popularity of video games among young people, gaming holds great promise for body image microinterventions. As such, we developed Super U Story, a stand-alone, self-paced, narrative-based adventure video game for the popular gaming platform Roblox grounded in the Tripartite Influence Model of body dissatisfaction and basic tenets of positive body image.

Objective

This trial evaluated the effectiveness of playing a purpose-built Roblox video game once on US

SUBMITTER: Paraskeva N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12355144 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature