Mental and emotional representations of "weight loss": free-word association networks in members of bariatric surgery-related social media communities.
CONCLUSION: Patients with obesity in our study tend to think about weight loss along 2 cognitive schemes, either emphasizing its expected benefits or focusing on the process of achieving it. Benefit-focused respondents were more likely to consider BS, and to express hope rather than gratitude or pride. Novel communication strategies may increase the acceptance of BS by incorporating weight loss-related cognitive and emotional content stemming from patients' free associations.
PMID: 32665114 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery - Category: Surgery Authors: Gero D, File B, Hinrichs N, Mueller M, Ulbert I, Somogyvári Z, Bueter M Tags: Surg Obes Relat Dis Source Type: research
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