scholarly journals “Now i can see me” designing a multi-user virtual reality remote psychotherapy for body weight and shape concerns

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Matsangidou ◽  
Boris Otkhmezuri ◽  
Chee Siang Ang ◽  
Marios Avraamides ◽  
Giuseppe Riva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Weight And Shape Concerns

scholarly journals Body image shame in men: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and psychometric properties of the Body Image Shame Scale

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiana Duarte ◽  
C. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Weight And Shape Concerns

Abstract Purpose Body image shame plays a key role in disordered eating symptoms and psychological adjustment. Nonetheless, research has been mainly focused on women. The Body Image Shame Scale (BISS) was previously developed and tested in a nonclinical sample of women. This study examines the BISS in a male sample comprising students and community participants. Methods Participants were 420 men, who completed the BISS and self-report measures of shame, self-criticism, body weight and shape concerns and psychopathological symptoms. Results The previously identified structure of the BISS, with an external and internal dimension, fitted the data well. All items presented high reliability. The BISS total score and its subscales in men present high construct reliability, and convergent and discriminant validity. Correlation analyses indicated that BISS and its subscales in men present positive associations with general shame and self-criticism, body weight and shape concerns, and with indices of poorer psychological adjustment. Conclusion Findings supported that the BISS is a reliable measure to assess body shame in men.

scholarly journals Differences in genetic and environmental influences on body weight and shape concerns across pubertal development in females

2020 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon M. O'Connor ◽  
Kristen M. Culbert ◽  
Laura A. Mayhall ◽  
S. Alexandra Burt ◽  
Kelly L. Klump
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Pubertal Development ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Weight And Shape Concerns

Virtual Reality–Enhanced Partial Body Weight–Supported Treadmill Training Poststroke: Feasibility and Effectiveness in 6 Subjects

2010 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Walker ◽  
Stacie I. Ringleb ◽  
George C. Maihafer ◽  
Robert Walker ◽  
Jessica R. Crouch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Treadmill Training ◽  
Partial Body

scholarly journals Assessing body image in anorexia nervosa using biometric self-avatars in virtual reality: Attitudinal components rather than visual body size estimation are distorted

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Mölbert ◽  
A. Thaler ◽  
B. J. Mohler ◽  
S. Streuber ◽  
J. Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Body Image Disturbance ◽  
Size Estimation ◽  
Eating Disorder Symptoms ◽  
Body Size Estimation

BackgroundBody image disturbance (BID) is a core symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN), but as yet distinctive features of BID are unknown. The present study aimed at disentangling perceptual and attitudinal components of BID in AN.MethodsWe investigated n = 24 women with AN and n = 24 controls. Based on a three-dimensional (3D) body scan, we created realistic virtual 3D bodies (avatars) for each participant that were varied through a range of ±20% of the participants’ weights. Avatars were presented in a virtual reality mirror scenario. Using different psychophysical tasks, participants identified and adjusted their actual and their desired body weight. To test for general perceptual biases in estimating body weight, a second experiment investigated perception of weight and shape matched avatars with another identity.ResultsWomen with AN and controls underestimated their weight, with a trend that women with AN underestimated more. The average desired body of controls had normal weight while the average desired weight of women with AN corresponded to extreme AN (DSM-5). Correlation analyses revealed that desired body weight, but not accuracy of weight estimation, was associated with eating disorder symptoms. In the second experiment, both groups estimated accurately while the most attractive body was similar to Experiment 1.ConclusionsOur results contradict the widespread assumption that patients with AN overestimate their body weight due to visual distortions. Rather, they illustrate that BID might be driven by distorted attitudes with regard to the desired body. Clinical interventions should aim at helping patients with AN to change their desired weight.

Prevalence and significance of weight and shape concerns in girls aged 11–16 years

1997 ◽  
Vol 171 (6) ◽  
pp. 542-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Cooper ◽  
Ian Goodyer
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Risk Population ◽  
The Core ◽  
Weight And Shape Concerns ◽  
Shape Characteristics

BackgroundThe prevalence of the core ideational component of eating disorders among the at-risk population (11 – to 16-year-old girls) is not known.MethodA community survey of 11 – to 16-year-old girls was conducted to establish the prevalence of significant concerns about body weight and shape characteristics of eating disorders. A total of 1068 girls were screened and 368 interviewed using standardised measures.ResultsSignificant weight and/or shape concerns were estimated to be present in 14.5% of the 11-to 12-year-olds, 14.9% of the 13-to 14-year-olds and 18.9% of the 15-to 16-year-olds. Only among those aged 15 to 16 was the presence of such concerns associated with a significant level of concurrent behavioural and ideational disturbance.ConclusionsSignificant concerns about weight or shape are present in almost one in five 15-to 16-year-old girls, many of whom evidence high levels of ancillary disturbance.

scholarly journals Modulating the internal model of verticality by virtual reality and body-weight support walking: A pilot study

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 292-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anaïs Odin ◽  
Dominique Faletto-Passy ◽  
Franck Assaban ◽  
Dominic Pérennou
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Internal Model ◽  
Body Weight Support ◽  
Weight Support

The Morphology of Vacuolated Cells in the Liver Following Administration of Vitamin A.

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 408-409
Author(s):  
Odell T. Minick ◽  
Hidejiro Yokoo ◽  
Fawzia Batti
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Vitamin A ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Liver Cells ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Vascular Space ◽  
Vacuolated Cell ◽  
Vacuolated Cells ◽  
Vacuolated Cytoplasm

Vacuolated cells in the liver of young rats were studied by light and electron microscopy following the administration of vitamin A (200 units per gram of body weight). Their characteristics were compared with similar cells found in untreated animals.In rats given vitamin A, cells with vacuolated cytoplasm were a prominent feature. These cells were found mostly in a perisinusoidal location, although some appeared to be in between liver cells (Fig. 1). Electron microscopy confirmed their location in Disse's space adjacent to the sinusoid and in recesses between liver cells. Some appeared to be bordering the lumen of the sinusoid, but careful observation usually revealed a tenuous endothelial process separating the vacuolated cell from the vascular space. In appropriate sections, fenestrations in the thin endothelial processes were noted (Fig. 2, arrow).

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