Marta Ferrer‐García

Universitat de Barcelona

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José Gutiérrez‐Maldonado

Universitat de Barcelona

106

Bruno Porras-García

Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa

Giuseppe Riva

IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Eduardo Serrano‐Troncoso

Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona

Antonios Dakanalis

University of Milano-Bicocca

Joana Pla‐Sanjuanelo

Universitat de Barcelona

Isabel Sánchez

Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge

Fernando Fernández‐Aranda

Universitat de Barcelona

Ferran Vilalta‐Abella

Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi

Alexis Andreu‐Gracia

Hospital d'Igualada

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Universitat de Barcelona

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Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

128

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

102

Universidad de Sevilla

Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla

Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red

John Wiley & Sons (United Kingdom)

Red Espanola de Investigacion en Patologia Infecciosa

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

King's College London

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Gender differences in attentional bias after owning a virtual avatar with increased weight

Bruno Porras-García Alexandra Ghiţă Manuel Moreno Marta Ferrer‐García Paola Bertomeu Panisello

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Psychomotor Development in Children Born Small for Gestational Age During Early Infancy

54th ESPE Meeting (ESPE 2015) (2015)

B Puga Maria J Olivan Z. Galve Segundo Rite Gracia Arriba Antonio de

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Body Dissatisfaction and Body-Related Attentional Bias: Is There a Causal Relationship?

Journal of Clinical Medicine (2023)

María Teresa Mendoza-Medialdea Franck-Alexandre Meschberger-Annweiler Mariarca Ascione Alejandra Rueda-Pina Elisa Rabarbari

Previous research has shown an association between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases toward the body, but the nature of this relationship is not clear. It is possible that dissatisfaction causes attentional bias or that dissatisfaction is a result of such bias. To clarify the causal relationship between these two variables, this study manipulated dissatisfaction in a sample of healthy women by exposing them to images of “ideal” bodies and observed whether this manipulation increased attentional biases toward different body parts. Fifty-seven women took part in a pre–post experimental design in which they observed an avatar representing themselves in a virtual mirror before and after being exposed to “thin ideal” photographs. Eye-tracking technology was employed to quantify the frequency and duration of fixations on weight-related and weight-unrelated body parts. The outcomes revealed a successful induction of body dissatisfaction, leading participants to display a heightened number of fixations and prolonged fixation durations on unrelated-weight body parts. These findings remained significant after controlling for the effects of trait body dissatisfaction and body mass index. The results imply that heightened body dissatisfaction fosters the aversion of attention from weight-related body parts, which may function as a protective mechanism for preserving self-esteem and promoting psychological well-being.

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10.3390/jcm12175659

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Body Image Assessment Software: Psychometric data

Behavior Research Methods (2008)

Marta Ferrer‐García José Gutiérrez‐Maldonado

10.3758/brm.40.2.394

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Evidencia científica en medicina: ¿única alternativa? Scientific evidence in medicine: the only alternative?

DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (2004)

Juan José Sarrado Xavier Clèries Marta Ferrer‐García Eduardo Kronfly

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Estudio de la variabilidad de las alteraciones de la imagen corporal mediante exposición a entornos de realidad virtual

Marta Ferrer‐García

La presente tesis es un compendio de diferentes estudios cuyo fin ultimo es la evolucion de la variabilidad de las alteraciones de la imagen corporal en pacientes con trastornos de la conducta alimentaria mediante la exposicion a entornos de realidad virtual.

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A Randomized Trial of Virtual Reality-Based Cue Exposure Second-Level Therapy and Cognitive Behavior Second-Level Therapy for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder: Outcome at Six-Month Followup

Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking (2018)

Marta Ferrer‐García Joana Pla‐Sanjuanelo Antonios Dakanalis Ferran Vilalta‐Abella Giuseppe Riva

This article reviews the 6-month followup data of a randomized, multicenter, parallel-group study conducted at five clinical sites in three European cities, which compared two second-level treatments for bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating disorder (BED): virtual reality-based cue exposure therapy (VR-CET) versus additional cognitive behavioral therapy (A-CBT). Post-treatment outcomes of this study were previously published and details of its design can be found at clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT02237300). This article focuses on the evolution of symptoms assessed after 6 months of followup in a subgroup of 58 patients from the original study. In this study 64 patients with eating disorders (EDs) (35 with BN and 29 with BED), who still showed active episodes of binge eating by the end of a structured CBT program (first-level treatment), were randomly assigned to one of two second-level treatments (A-CBT or VR-CET). Frequency of binge and purge episodes, and attitudinal features of binge-related EDs (bulimia, drive for thinness, and body dissatisfaction) were assessed before starting the second-level treatment (n = 64), at the end (n = 64), and at 6-month followup (n = 58). Mixed between-within subject analyses of variance were used to compare outcomes of both second-level treatments over time. Although both treatment conditions showed statistically significant improvements at the end and after 6-month followup, obtained reductions were greater after VR-CET, regarding binge and purge episodes, as well as the decrease of self-reported tendency to engage in overeating episodes. Accordingly, abstinence from binge episodes were higher in VR-CET than A-CBT at followup (70 percent vs. 26 percent, respectively; χ2 = 11.711, p = 0.001). These results provide further support for the use of VR-CET as an effective second-level intervention for BN and BED treatment-resistant patients.

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Virtual Reality Body Exposure Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa. A Single Case Study

Communications in computer and information science (2020)

Bruno Porras-García Marta Ferrer‐García Eduardo Serrano‐Troncoso Marta Carulla‐Roig Pau Soto-Usera

Exposure therapy

Anorexia nervosa

10.1007/978-3-030-50729-9_15