Background and aims: Body image is defined as a complex concept involving a person’s thoughts,feelings, and attitudes about his/her body. The body image dissatisfaction may expose the individuals,specifically athletes, to eating disorders (EDs). The aim of this study is to assess the association of bodyimage score with EDs and anthropometric measures in students from universit...

Background: Diabetic ulcers are complications of diabetes mellitus in the form neuropathy and ischemia. ulcer patients experience wounds on legs, which take a long time to heal, so they prone anxiety body image disturbance. Anxiety is an unclear fear accompanied by uncertainty discomfort feelings, while disturbance perception body's shape, structure, function. The research objective was determi...

backgrounds: the prevalence of disordered eating behaviors has been reported to increase in recent decades; therefore, scientific studies should perform for specifying psychological variables that may contribute to the etiology of this disorder. in this study, we examined the role of body image disturbance and perfectionism variables in predicting disordered eating behaviors among female studen...

the aim of this study was to compare the satisfaction from body areas and social - physique anxiety in islamic azad university students. for this purpose, 424 athlete and non-athlete undergraduate students completed body areas satisfaction scale (bass) and seven-item social - physique anxiety scale (7-spas). results of multivariate analysis of covariance (mancova) showed that while sport (indiv...

OBJECTIVE Women with breast cancer face threats to body image following surgery. Nipple-sparing mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction (NSM + IBR) may minimise body image disturbance as this preserves the woman's skin and areola complex. We assessed levels of body image disturbance and psychological distress in women undergoing NSM + IBR. To further understand the body image-distress r...

Background: One of the body image concepts is spouse image of body. It has an important role in selfesteem, relationship satisfaction and women's sexual health. That is, women with more positive spouse image of body may be more confident that their partners will continue to accept them and thus have more sexual function. This study therefore aimed to compare the relationship of spouse imag...

Background: Changes of body image following breast cancer is one of the factors affecting the quality of life of women with this disease. Objectives: Thus, the factors affecting the body image need to be identified to improve their quality of life. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the body image in Iranian women diagnosed with breast cancer. Methods: In this cr...

Objective: The treatment of obesity besides weight loss will have numerous psychological effects. The obese patients have different body image, poor hope and quality of life that influence the process of their treatment. The aim of this study was to compare body image, quality of life and hope in obese women with diet therapy and obese women who are not under diet therapy. Materials and Method...