Laboratoire Éducations et Promotion de la Santé (LEPS UR 3412)

Rapport au corps des adultes en situation d’obésité (RECORPS)

Taking into account the relationship with the body of people in a situation of obesity in their care (RECORPS)

Project overview Today, the relationship to the body is not systematically investigated in clinical practice in subjects with obesity. The objective of this project was first to carry out an inventory of the various disorders of the relationship to the body, to explain them, and to specify in what way they can be relevant to consider in the clinical practice of obesity medicine. Three dimensions of body dysperception, including numerous possible disorders, were highlighted: lack of awareness of the reality of one's body size, difficulties in identifying hunger and satiety signals, and a feeling of insecurity with regard to certain bodily sensations, thus generating emotional eating and/or difficulty in practicing physical activity.
This first work allowed us to propose that these disorders be evaluated and taken into account in the care of people with obesity. To do this, the limitations of the tools used to identify body-related disorders should be reduced. Indeed, these tools do not evaluate certain dimensions of the relationship to the body, and they are difficult to use in clinical practice. Moreover, the multiplicity of therapeutic responses (psycho-corporal, psychiatric, educational, etc.) aiming at improving the relationship to the body would imply a multidisciplinary approach which would be facilitated by the use of a common, multidimensional scale of the relationship to the body.
In a third phase of the project, a DELPHI (consensus conference of experts and patients) was conducted in order to develop the constructs of a future self-questionnaire aimed at evaluating the relationship to the body of adults in an obese situation in clinical practice. The experts had to agree on the dimensions and items to be included in the future tool. These dimensions and items came from validated questionnaires in English or French, pre-selected following a systematic literature review (subject of a master's thesis). A psychometric study will be carried out to validate the questionnaire.
RECORPS addresses a plural, self-dependent and complex phenomenon. The disorders of the relationship with the body - at the same time of the order of exteroceptive, interoceptive and proprioceptive sensitivities - require to be taken into account by the professionals of the multidisciplinary team in the clinical practice of the medicine of obesity as they can prove to be factors of success or failure of the accompaniment. This consideration of the lived body and the perceived body would support the process of reappropriation by the person of his or her body and its management.

Collaboration University Hospital of Reims, and the association Le Regard du Miroir

Valuation already in place - Bertin E, Benzerouk F, Gavlak B, Bernard D, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, Body misperception: a complex, multifaceted issue to be taken into consideration in obesity, Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique, 2019, 54(6): e1-e8
- Bertin E, Benzerouk F, Gavlak B, Bernard D, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, The relationship to the body: a complex, multifaceted issue to be considered in obesity, Cahiers de Nutrition et Diététique, 2019, 54(4): 206-214
- Edet A, Bertin E, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, Systematic review of tools for assessing the relationship to the body of adults with obesity, Dissertation for M2 Public Health Therapeutic Education and Health Education (ETES) track, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, 2019.

Research team

Aude-Marie FOUCAUT

Chercheure associée, spécialiste de l'Activité Physique Adaptée et Santé (APA-S) ; HDR

I carry out my research in the field of Public Health in order to evaluate - beyond the effect of physical activity - its feasibility, obstacles and facilitators in the field of health.

Activités récentes : Active lifestyle is a complex health behavior, determined by numerous factors at micro, meso and macro-environmental levels. Our current research aims to increase our knowledge of these factors, and to explain them within ecological models. Thanks to the experience acquired at the Health & Wellness Lab of the University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) during a CRCT from 2022 to 2023, and building on the results of previous studies, we are in a position to implement projects based on implementation science, with large patient samples, in France. We will then be able to document variables that are unfortunately still under-evaluated in multimodal programs promoting physical activity in secondary and tertiary prevention, such as acceptability, adoption, feasibility, fidelity, safety, reach, sustainability, integration into the care pathway, and cost.

Publications récentes : Ouvrage :
- Foucaut A-M (coord), Chapelot D, Vergnault M, Landry A, Ordonnances en Activité Physique Adaptée : 100 prescriptions, Paris, Maloine, 2nde édition, 2024. 584 pages

Chapitre d’ouvrage :
- Foucaut A-M, Activité physique, santé et éducation thérapeutique du patient chronique, in 4ème éd. Education thérapeutique – Prévention et maladies chroniques, coord. Simon D, Bourdillon F, Popelier M, Grimaldi A, coll. Abrégés de médecine, Paris, Elsevier Masson, 19 août 2020. pp. 219-233.
- Foucaut A-M, Accessibilité des pratiques sportives pour toutes et tous et inclusion par le sport, in Guerriers pacifiques, l’épopée du Sport à travers l’Histoire, coord. Sallem R, Delattre V, éditions CAPSAAA/INRAP/IPSEN, coll. Défis de civilisation, Paris, sortie prochaine

Articles de recherche :
- Aumaitre A, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, Analyse qualitative des facteurs influençant le style de vie actif dans l’après-cancer en France métropolitaine, Bulletin du Cancer, 2025, online first
- Foucaut A-M, Aumaitre A, Gagnayre R, Implémentabilité de l’intervention multimodale sur les DEterminants et Facteurs de l’ACTivité physique après les traitements en Oncologie (DEFACTO2), Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique, 2025, 60 : 110-123
- Aumaitre A, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, Determinants and factors of physical activity after oncology treatments (DE FACTO) in metropolitan France: Study protocol of mixed method study, JMIR Research Protocols, 2024, 13:e52274
- Aumaitre A, Gagnayre R, Foucaut A-M, Determinants and factors of physical activity and sedentary behaviors among post-treatment breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer survivors living in France: results from the DEFACTO study first phase, Patient Education and Counselling, 2024, 124:108273
- Wagoner CW, Dreger J, Keats MR, Santa Mina D, McNeely ML, Cuthbert C, Capozzi LC, Francis GJ, Trinh L, Sibley D, Langley J, Chiekwe J, Ester M, Foucaut A-M, Culos-Reed SN. First year implementation of the EXercise for Cancer to Enhance Living Well (EXCEL) study: Building networks to support rural and remote community access to exercise oncology resources. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, 20(3), 1930 (IF 4.614 – Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Q2)

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Rémi GAGNAYRE

Professeur émérite en Sciences de l’éducation et de la formation - Ancien Directeur du LEPS

Her work focuses on the actors, devices and systems at the interface between education and health that contribute to learning from a perspective of health promotion, cognitive justice and empowerment.

Activités récentes : Ongoing supervision of 7 PhD students and project manager for LEPS and the Ecole Universitaires de Recherches en Sciences infirmières (University School of Nursing Research)

Publications récentes : Nokovitch L, El Hajj H, Deneuve S, De Andrade V, Gagnayre R, Margat A. Visual–spatial abilities enhancement and spatial anatomy learning: A systematic review. Med Educ. 2025;1‐11. doi:10.1111/medu.70022
Soleymani D, Pougheon-Bertrand D, Gagnayre R. A Digital Behavior Change Intervention for Health Promotion for Adults in Midlife: Protocol for a Multidimensional Assessment Study, JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e60559 URL: https://www.researchprotocols.org/2025/1/e60559 doi: 10.2196/60559
Mehrnoosh Yazdanbakhsh, Vincent De Andrade, Laurence Spiesser-Robelet, Rémi Gagnayre ,The need for educational intervention for breastfeeding women and the professional practice of midwives in France to promote breastfeeding: A joint explanatory study, Eur J Midwifery 2024;8(December):73 https://doi.org/10.18332/ejm/191176
Foucaut A.-M., Aumaître A., Gagnayre R., Implementabilité de l’intervention multimodale sur les déterminants et facteurs de l’activité physique après le traitements en oncologie ( DeFActo 2), Cahier de nutrition et de diététique, 2024
Allory E., Scheer J., De Andrade V., Garlantézec R., Gagnayre R., Characteristics of self-management education and support programmes for people with chronic diseases delivered by primary car team : a rapid review. BMC Primary Care (2024) 25:46 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-024-02262-2
Quesnay P, Gagnayre R. L’approche par compétences dans les formations en santé : de la prescription aux pratiqques pédagogiques. Carrefours de l’Education. N°59, Juin 2025, 45-61

Email : remi.gagnayre@univ-paris13.fr

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