Figure rating scales used in sub-Saharan africa for body image assessment: a scoping review
Jamaiica S Hurston, Eliza A Huefner, Grace G Smith, Simon Pierre Bigirimana, Anne E Sumner · 2025
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Description
Jamaiica Hurston and co-authors gather every figure rating scale used to gauge body image in sub-Saharan Africa. Such scales show a row of body shapes and ask people to pick, a simple tool with deep cultural roots. Body ideals in the region are in flux, and scattered tools make studies hard to compare.
Their 2025 scoping review searched five databases for adult studies from the region that used a figure scale. Dozens of papers across fourteen countries used more than twenty apart scales. Most scales were made in the United States, Australia, or Europe, and few in Africa itself. The review describes each scale's images and build, giving future teams one shared shelf to choose from.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jamaiica S Hurston, Eliza A Huefner, Grace G Smith, Simon Pierre Bigirimana, Anne E Sumner |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |