“…Different instruments were used to evaluate the perception of the body image in the participants, among them, the silhouette scale of Stunkard, being the most used one, studies 1, 3 and 7 15,17,24 , followed by Body Shape Questionnaire used in the study 2 (HAAS; GARCIA; BER-TOLETTI, 2010), the Multidimensional Body Self Relations Questionnaire in the study 4 21 , Beck Depression Inventory in study 5 22 , and the Body mass index-silhouette matching test in the study 6 23 . The nine silhouettes scale, proposed by Stunkard, used in three of the seven included studies in this review, presents nine silhouettes, to each gender, with different body sizes, enumerated from the smallest (thinner -1) to the bigger (fatter -9).…”