Affective response to whole-body cryotherapy: Influence of sex, body mass index, age, time of day, and past experience
Legrand FD, Bogard F, Beaumont F, Bouchet B, Blancheteau Y, Polidori G
Complementary therapies in medicine · 3 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- No health outcome
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
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Publication
- Published
- 2020-08-13 · Complement Ther Med · vol. 55 · p. 102539
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Cited
- 4 citations · more than 63% of similar papers · 0.3× the field average
- References
- 23 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · OTHER-OA
- Research areas
- Exercise and Physiological Responses · Dermatological and COVID-19 studies · Cancer survivorship and care
- Keywords
- Medicine, Affect (linguistics), Body mass index, Attendance, Session (web analytics), Feeling, Pleasure, Quality of life (healthcare), Confidence interval, Cryotherapy, Popularity, Athletes, Gerontology, Clinical psychology, Physical therapy, Psychology, Internal medicine, Surgery, Social psychology, Psychotherapist, Advertising
- MeSH
- humans, body mass index, cryotherapy, age factors, sex factors, time factors, quality of life, adult, middle aged, female, male, pleasure, surveys and questionnaires
6 authors
From FR
- Fabien D. Legrand · correspondingCognition, Santé, Société; Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Fabien BogardUniversité de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Fabien BeaumontUniversité de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- Bastien Bouchet
- Y. Blancheteau
- Guillaume PolidoriUniversité de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Abstract
Objective
Whole-Body Cryotherapy (WBC) has seen a recent surge in popularity with patients with inflammatory conditions, athletes, and even people seeking to improve general health and quality of life. WBC treatment usually requires participation in a dozen of 3-min long sessions. But compliance is considered difficult due to possible cold-induced unpleasant sensations. Based on hedonic psychology assumptions, ratings of pleasure-displeasure experienced during a taks or activity may be important to understand individual differences in attendance.
Methods
Two hundred fifty nine customers from two French cryocenters took the Feeling Scale immediately after their first WBC session.
Results
End affect appeared to be negatively valenced (M = -1.85, SD = 1.38, 95 % confidence interval: -2.02 to -1.68). Additional statistical analyses revealed a moderating influence of past experience, in women only. Similarly, BMI was found to be negatively associated with displeasure in women, but not in men.
Conclusion
These findings are discussed and further research directions are suggested.
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