ArticleJournal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent2025
The Impact of Lipomastia on Self-Esteem and Social Anxiety in Adolescents with Obesity.
Article in Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: Obesity can negatively impact adolescents' self-esteem, and lipomastia can further complicate the situation. Objective: The current study endeavors to examine the influence of lipomastia on the levels of social anxiety and self-esteem in individuals with obesity. Methods: Seventy adolescent male outpatients with obesity completed a form of demographics, the SAS-A (Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents), and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES-10 item). Participants were stratified according to the presence of lipomastia, and correlation analyses were conducted to investigate the association between social anxiety and self-esteem in relation to lipomastia. Results: No significant difference was found between the lipomastia and non-lipomastia groups regarding self-esteem. While the lipomastia group had slightly higher overall social anxiety scores, significant differences were noted only in fear of negative evaluation. There was no relationship between the SAS-A total score and anthropometric measurements in both groups. However, a negative relationship was observed between self-esteem and anthropometric measurements in the lipomastia group, whereas such a relationship was not observed in the control group. Conclusion: Adolescents with lipomastia showed higher social anxiety, particularly fear of negative evaluation, despite similar demographic and anthropometric characteristics to their peers. Higher BMI correlated with lower self-esteem, highlighting the complex interplay between body image, self-esteem, and social anxiety. These findings underscore the need for targeted interventions to support adolescents with obesity and lipomastia.
Indexed as
Identifiers
40959827PMC12435364What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.