Focusing on Body Functionality After Bariatric Surgery

Maastricht University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Body Image; Bariatric Surgery Candidate

Treatments: Other: Expand Your Horizon

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04883268

ERCPN-167_03_05_2016

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 103 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Identifying as female, being between 18 and 65 years old, having undergone bariatric surgery 5-7 months prior to the study, and qualifying for standard aftercare at the Nederlandse Obesitas Kliniek (NOK; Dutch Obesity Clinic).

Exclusion criteria

• N/A

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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103 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the intervention group completed the Expand Your Horizon programme (Alleva et al., 2015).

Treatment:

Other: Expand Your Horizon

Comparison Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in the comparison group did not complete any intervention (i.e., this was a waitlist comparison group).