ArticleObesity surgery2021
Body Image Disturbances and Weight Bias After Obesity Surgery: Semantic and Visual Evaluation in a Controlled Study, Findings from the BodyTalk Project.
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- Mental Health and Body Image and the Reduction of Excess Body Weight in Woman (Polish Sample).Nutrients · 2024Article
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- Attitudes and Behaviors towards Food and Weight in Late Pregnancy: A Comparative Approach between Individuals with and without Previous Bariatric Surgery.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Exploring weight bias and negative self-evaluation in patients with mood disorders: insights from the BodyTalk Project.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Body image perception and physical activity behavior among adult population: Application of trans-theoretical model of behavior change.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Cyberball task in people after obesity surgery: preliminary evaluation of cognitive effects of social inclusion and exclusion with a laboratory task.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Addressing Weight Bias in the Cisgender Population: Differences between Sexual Orientations.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Fertility, pregnancy and post partum management after bariatric surgery: a narrative review.The Medical journal of Australia · 2022Review
- The role of weight stigma in weight regain in bariatric surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
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Abstract
purposeBody image has a significant impact on the outcome of obesity surgery. This study aims to perform a semantic evaluation of body shapes in obesity surgery patients and a group of controls. MATERIALS AND
methodsThirty-four obesity surgery (OS) subjects, stable after weight loss (average 48.03 ± 18.60 kg), and 35 overweight/obese controls (MC), were enrolled in this study. Body dissatisfaction, self-esteem, and body perception were evaluated with self-reported tests, and semantic evaluation of body shapes was performed with three specific tasks constructed with realistic human body stimuli.
resultsThe OS showed a more positive body image compared to HC (p < 0.001), higher levels of depression (p < 0.019), and lower self-esteem (p < 0.000). OS patients and HC showed no difference in weight bias, but OS used a higher BMI than HC in the visualization of positive adjectives (p = 0.011). Both groups showed a mental underestimation of their body shapes.
conclusionOS patients are more psychologically burdened and have more difficulties in judging their bodies than overweight/obese peers. Their mental body representations seem not to be linked to their own BMI. Our findings provide helpful insight for the design of specific interventions in body image in obese and overweight people, as well as in OS.
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