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Obesity‐Related Beliefs, Concerns, and Stigmatizing Perceptions Among Adults Living With Obesity [PDF]

Obesity Science & Practice
Background Weight stigma represents a barrier to effective obesity management and to achieving health equity. Although most research has focused on high‐income countries, data from Latin America remain scarce.
Luiz F. Viola, Cynthia M. Valerio, Raquel B. G. Muniz, Roberta M. C. Moreira Allgayer, Thaisa D. G. Trujilho, Alexandre Hohl, Rodrigo N. Lamounier, Maria Augusta Bernardini, Roberta Brito, Bruno Halpern, Fábio R. Trujilho   +10 more
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An exploratory examination of internalized weight stigma in a sample living with food insecurity [PDF]

Body Image, 2021
Carolyn Black Becker, Francesca Gomez, Lisa Smith Kilpelä   +2 more
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Intuitive eating buffers the link between internalized weight stigma and body mass index in stressed adults [PDF]

Appetite, 2022
Tosca D Braun, Jessica L Unick, Ana M Abrantes   +2 more
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Dismantling weight stigma in eating disorder treatment: Next steps for the field

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
The authors posit current guidelines and treatment for eating disorders (EDs) fail to adequately address, and often perpetuate, weight stigma. The social devaluation and denigration of higher-weight individuals cuts across nearly every life domain and is
Mindy L. McEntee, Samantha R. Philip, Sean M. Phelan   +2 more
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Stigmatizing weight experiences in health care: Associations with BMI and eating behaviours

Obesity Science & Practice, 2019
Summary Introduction Individuals with overweight or obesity often experience stigmatizing weight‐related interactions in health care, though how these experiences are associated with body mass index (BMI) and eating behaviour is unknown.
Jocelyn E. Remmert, Alexandra D. Convertino, Savannah R. Roberts, Kathryn M. Godfrey, Meghan L. Butryn   +4 more
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Missing the target: including perspectives of women with overweight and obesity to inform stigma‐reduction strategies

Obesity Science & Practice, 2017
Summary Objective Pervasive weight stigma and discrimination have led to ongoing calls for efforts to reduce this bias. Despite increasing research on stigma‐reduction strategies, perspectives of individuals who have experienced weight stigma have rarely
R. M. Puhl, M. S. Himmelstein, A. A. Gorin, Y. J. Suh   +3 more
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Bariatric surgery patients’ perceptions of weight-related stigma in healthcare settings impair post-surgery dietary adherence

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
Background: Weight-related stigma is reported frequently by higher body-weight patients in healthcare settings. Bariatric surgery triggers profound weight loss.
Danielle M. Raves, Alexandra Brewis, Sarah Trainer, Seung Yong Han, Amber Wutich   +4 more
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Trying again (and again): Weight cycling and depressive symptoms in U.S. adults.

PLoS ONE, 2020
As the prevalence of overweight and obesity have risen over the past few decades, so have weight control attempts. Research has shown, however, that intentional weight loss results are often short-lived, with people regaining the weight over time.
Diane M Quinn, Rebecca M Puhl, Mora A Reinka   +2 more
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Associations between weight stigma and mental well-being among people in romantic relationships: an actor-partner interdependence model investigation

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundRomantic relationships are primary sources of mental well-being, including life satisfaction. Stigma not only has adverse effects on individual mental well-being but also negatively affects relationship functioning.
Paula M. Brochu, Emily J. Georgia, Madeline Jubran, Molly Robbins, Katherine West, Jillian Crocker, Alexandria M. Schmidt, Katerina Rinaldi, Em Joseph, McKenzie K. Roddy   +9 more
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source