ArticleScientific reports2017
Body size estimation in women with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls using 3D avatars.
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- The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women's Body Size.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Use of a real-life practical context changes the relationship between implicit body representations and real body measurements.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Visual mapping of body image disturbance in anorexia nervosa reveals objective markers of illness severity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Beyond BMI for self-estimates of body size and shape: A new method for developing stimuli correctly calibrated for body composition.Behavior research methods · 2021Article
- The ageing body: contributing attitudinal factors towards perceptual body size estimates in younger and middle-aged women.Archives of women's mental health · 2021Article
- The Perceived Match Between Observed and Own Bodies, but Not Its Accuracy, Is Influenced by Movement Dynamics and Clothing Cues.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
A core feature of anorexia nervosa is an over-estimation of body size. However, quantifying this over-estimation has been problematic as existing methodologies introduce a series of artefacts and inaccuracies in the stimuli used for judgements of body size. To overcome these problems, we have: (i) taken 3D scans of 15 women who have symptoms of anorexia (referred to henceforth as anorexia spectrum disorders, ANSD) and 15 healthy control women, (ii) used a 3D modelling package to build avatars from the scans, (iii) manipulated the body shapes of these avatars to reflect biometrically accurate, continuous changes in body mass index (BMI), (iv) used these personalized avatars as stimuli to allow the women to estimate their body size. The results show that women who are currently receiving treatment for ANSD show an over-estimation of body size which rapidly increases as their own BMI increases. By contrast, the women acting as healthy controls can accurately estimate their body size irrespective of their own BMI. This study demonstrates the viability of combining 3D scanning and CGI techniques to create personalised realistic avatars of individual patients to directly assess their body image perception.
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