NCT04883268

Focusing on Body Functionality After Bariatric Surgery

Does Focusing on Body Functionality Improve Body Image Among Women Who Have Undergone Bariatric Surgery?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 103 (actual)
• Sponsor: Maastricht University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study investigated whether focusing on one's body functionality (i.e., everything the body can do, rather than how it looks) would lead to improvements in body image, self-esteem, and self-kindness among women who have undergone bariatric surgery.

Conditions

• Bariatric Surgery Candidate
• Body Image

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Expand Your Horizon	Expand Your Horizon is an online programme, comprising three 15min writing exercises delivered over the course of 1 week. In each writing exercise, participants are asked to describe the functions of their body, and why those are personally meaningful to them.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-02-01
• Completion: 2020-02-01
• First posted: 2021-05-12
• Last updated: 2021-05-12

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Netherlands