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Implications of Wearing a Fat Suit

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A. Janet Tomiyama

Status

Completed

Conditions

Feeding Behaviors

Treatments

Other: Fat Suit
Other: Control Condition

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02745405
13-001873

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study examined how wearing a fat suit might lead individuals to experience the negative effects of weight based stigmatization, including psychological, behavioral, and physiological consequences. It also aimed to test using the fat suit as a possible intervention tactic to reduce weight stigma.

Full description

The goal of this study was to understand how embodying a stigmatized domain might elicit the same consequences investigators see in victims of weight stigma. Participants were randomly assigned to either manipulate their weight through wearing a fat suit prosthesis or to a control condition where they wore the same clothing that was on the fat suit but in their own size. Outcome variables were cortisol reactivity, psychological well-being, and food and drink consumption. Additionally, this study tested whether wearing the fat suit might serve as an effective weight stigma reduction effort.

Enrollment

109 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Participants had to be registered in the UCLA Department of Psychology Subject Pool.

Exclusion criteria

  • No specific exclusion criteria.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

109 participants in 2 patient groups

Fat Suit Condition
Experimental group
Description:
Participants are randomly assigned to wear a fat suit and then walk across campus.
Treatment:
Other: Fat Suit
Control Condition
Other group
Description:
Participants are randomly assigned to wear the same clothing that is on the fat suit but in their own size and then walk across campus.
Treatment:
Other: Control Condition

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