The effects of exposure to televised thin and average size models on body dissatisfaction and actual food intake were examined. Normal weight female students (N=104) were exposed to a 30-min movie clip featuring beautiful girls. Half of them viewed the movie clip in normal screen size (4:3) and the other half viewed the same movie clip in broad screen size (16:9), in which the body size of the ...

AIMS Risk of revision following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is higher in patients under 55 years, but little data are reported regarding non-revision outcomes. This study aims to identify predictors of dissatisfaction in these patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS We prospectively assessed 177 TKAs (157 consecutive patients, 99 women, mean age 50 years; 17 to 54) from 2008 to 2013. Age, gender, im...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of nurse staffing and organizational support for nursing care on nurses' dissatisfaction with their jobs, nurse burnout, and nurse reports of quality of patient care in an international sample of hospitals. DESIGN Multisite cross-sectional survey SETTING Adult acute-care hospitals in the U.S. (Pennsylvania), Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), England and...

OBJECTIVES To identify and describe the main sources of dissatisfaction with medical services among the population in Lithuania. DESIGN Analysis of written responses to an open-ended question as a part of a questionnaire survey. PARTICIPANTS A randomly selected group of 25--64-year-old men and women from the Utena and the Kaisiadorys regions of Lithuania. Of the 1395 survey respondents, 357...

AIM Definition of factors influencing negative body image among obese women and analysis of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and personality variables. METHOD 63 patients participated in this study. The mean age of the obese subjects was 41.90 years (SD +/- 12.23) and the mean body mass index (BMI) was 37.09 kg/m2 (SD +/- 8.09). The control group consisted of 60 women with normal...

Although self-harm has been observed among patients with eating disorders, the effects of such tendencies on treatment outcomes are unclear. The current study employed structural equation modeling to (a) evaluate the relationship between self-harm and changes in body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness in a large sample of patients (n = 2061) who underwent inpatient treatment, and (b) to exa...

Weight related teasing, a verbal form of bullying, is an established predictor of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. However, as many as 11% of university students report experiencing other forms of bullying, such as physical, social, and cyberbullying which has been linked to depression, anxiety and substance abuse. The current study aims to establish the impact of other forms of bull...

OBJECTIVE To determine the potential predictors of body size dissatisfaction in Chinese children. DESIGN The Child's Body Image Scale was used to assess body size perception and dissatisfaction. BMI was calculated from objectively measured height and weight. Predictors of body size dissatisfaction were examined by logistic regression analysis. SETTING Hong Kong, China. SUBJECTS Six hundre...

OBJECTIVE Use classification tree analysis with lagged predictors to determine empirically derived cut-points for identifying adolescent girls at risk for future onset of threshold, subthreshold, and partial eating disorders and test for interactions between risk factors that may implicate qualitatively distinct risk pathways. METHOD Data were drawn from a prospective study of 496 adolescent ...

Engagement with social media, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, may lead to negative outcomes for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating due to the appearance focused nature of the online interactions. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine relationships between social media photo-related activities and overvaluation of shape and weight, body dissatisfaction, and diet...