Implications of Wearing a Fat Suit

Feeding Behaviors Clinical Trial

Official title: Implications of Wearing a Fat Suit for Eating, Physiological Stress, and Psychological Well-Being

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study examined how wearing a fat suit might lead individuals to experience the negative effects of weight based stigmatization, including psychological, behavioral, and physiological consequences. It also aimed to test using the fat suit as a possible intervention tactic to reduce weight stigma.

Clinical Trial Description

The goal of this study was to understand how embodying a stigmatized domain might elicit the same consequences investigators see in victims of weight stigma. Participants were randomly assigned to either manipulate their weight through wearing a fat suit prosthesis or to a control condition where they wore the same clothing that was on the fat suit but in their own size. Outcome variables were cortisol reactivity, psychological well-being, and food and drink consumption. Additionally, this study tested whether wearing the fat suit might serve as an effective weight stigma reduction effort. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Feeding Behaviors

• NCT number: NCT02745405
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of California, Los Angeles
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2014
• Completion date: December 2014