The Effect of Mood Induction in Body Image Through Virtual Reality

NCT04617886 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 1127840
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 42
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The effect of emotional induction of sadness (vs. joy) on the mental representation of the body image through the virtual reality

Conditions

Sadness; Happiness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Change in the Body image dissatisfaction state

  Body Image States Scale (BISS; Cash, Fleming, Alindogan, Steadman y Whitehead, 2002). This is a 6-item self-report questionnaire that measures the individuals' evaluation and affect about their physical appearance (e.g., body image appraisal and satisfaction, as well as emotional experiences) at a particular moment in time: (1) satisfaction with one's overall physical appearance, (2) satisfaction with one's body size and shape, (3) satisfaction with one's weight; (4) feelings of physical attractiveness; (5) current feelings about one's looks relative to how one usually feels; and (6) evaluation of one's appearance relative to how the average person looks. Items are rated on a 9-point bipolar Likert scale. The measure is the composite mean of the items, and higher scores reflect a more favorable body image satisfaction state. The BISS was acceptably internally consistent in the original validation. A Spanish version was translated by the authors of the study.

  Baseline; inmediately after procedure

• Change in the Body image estimation

  Software Cognitive (developed at the lab) measuring real and ideal body size estimation based on Glendhill et al. (2017) and using Virtual Reality. The results will be reflected as Body Mass Index change (estimation of the own body size and the ideal body size in BMI). In the present study, a total of 31 female avatars with different BMI were developed. The VR evaluation program allowed for tasks to be performed to estimate the body size (for one's own body and for the ideal body). The body size estimation tasks consisted of two phases. In the first phase, 8 avatars with a different BMI ranging from 14.5 to 28.5 were presented randomly. Ten repetitions were performed for each avatar. In the second phase, 5 avatars were shown with a BMI greater and less in 2 units to the cut-off point estimated in the first phase of the estimation task. Five repetitions were performed for each avatar.

  Baseline; inmediately after procedure

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in the Positive and negative affect

  Baseline; inmediately after procedure

Study Arms (2)

Sadness condition

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Sadness induction; Other: Happiness induction

Happiness condition

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Sadness induction; Other: Happiness induction

Interventions

Sadness induction OTHER

Sadness state will be induced with a Virtual Reality program. Mood induction will be done with an emotional induction procedure in virtual reality (Mood induction parks (Baños et al., 2006)). This technique has proven to be effective in previous studies (e.g., van Strien et al. 2013). Virtual reality software simulates an urban park and includes several methods of sadness induction: Velten's tasks (1968) (sentence formulations with negative content about the self; for example, "I am not valuable", "I see no future"); visualization of a image bank with emotional content from the international system of emotional images (IAPS, Lang et al.,1999); listening to a piece of music and viewing a film scene that demonstrated his effectiveness in inducing positive affect (Donen et al. 1952; Eich and Metcalfe 1989; Gross and Levenson 1995), and an autobiographical memory test.

Happiness condition; Sadness condition

Happiness induction OTHER

Happiness state will be induced with a Virtual Reality program. Mood induction will be done with an emotional induction procedure in virtual reality (Mood induction parks (Baños et al., 2006)). This technique has proven to be effective in previous studies (e.g., van Strien et al. 2013). Virtual reality software simulates an urban park and includes several methods of sadness induction: Velten's tasks (1968) (sentence formulations with negative content about the self; for example, "I am not valuable", "I see no future"); visualization of a image bank with emotional content from the international system of emotional images (IAPS, Lang et al.,1999); listening to a piece of music and viewing a film scene that demonstrated his effectiveness in inducing positive affect (Donen et al. 1952; Eich and Metcalfe 1989; Gross and Levenson 1995), and an autobiographical memory test.

Happiness condition; Sadness condition

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• ED diagnosis: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa or Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
• BDI-II - depression symptomatology scores \<29 (for ethical reasons)
• Age between 13 and 18

You may not qualify if:

• suicide risk: the decision of the psychiatrist/psychologist
• present any medical illness or physical incapacity that could impede the experiment
• diagnosis of Binge Eating Disorder
• Body Mass Index \<14 or \> 28
• pregnancy

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Valencia: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Valencia

Valencia, 46010, Spain

Location

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Within subjects design. Each participant will be tested, in a counterbalanced way, through both (sadness vs. joy) conditions

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 23, 2020
• First Posted: November 5, 2020
• Study Start: November 16, 2020
• Primary Completion: December 31, 2022
• Study Completion: December 31, 2022
• Last Updated: October 23, 2023

Record last verified: 2022-11

Locations

ES (1)