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Predictors of support for anti-weight discrimination policies among Canadian adults

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionWeight discrimination of individuals with overweight or obesity is associated with adverse mental and physical health. Weight discrimination is prevalent in many sectors such as within workplaces, where individuals with overweight and obesity
Matthew Levy, Vida Forouhar, Iyoma Y. Edache, Angela S. Alberga   +3 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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Implicit Attitudes to Female Body Shape in Spanish Women With High and Low Body Dissatisfaction

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Research on implicit attitudes to body image has grown substantially in recent years. The extant evidence reveals an implicit weight bias in the general population that has generally been interpreted in terms of anti-fat attitudes. However, research with
Mónica Hernández-López, Alba Antequera-Rubio, Miguel Rodríguez-Valverde   +2 more
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Weight Stigma in Physical and Occupational Therapy: A Scoping Review

Obesities
Background: Weight stigma describes the negative attitudes held toward people with obesity. Weight bias stereotypes have been previously reported in physicians, physician assistants, nurses, registered dieticians, psychologists, and students enrolled in ...
Jason Brumitt, Katherine Turner
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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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Higher physician body mass index is associated with increased weight bias in an Arab Country with high prevalence of obesity

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Background: Obesity is a worldwide problem. The Arab world, and particularly the Middle East, has witnessed a recent dramatic rise in obesity and obesity-related diseases.
Satish Chandrasekhar Nair, Saba Munib Sheikh, Halah Ibrahim   +2 more
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Composite variable bias: causal analysis of weight outcomes [PDF]

Background: Researchers often use composite variables (e.g., BMI and change scores). By combining multiple variables (e.g., height and weight or follow-up weight and baseline weight) into a single variable it becomes challenging to untangle the causal ...
Gilthorpe, M.S., Mansournia, M, Ge, Jiaqi, Ge, J, Allmendinger, Richard; id_orcid, Ali, R., Mansournia, M.A., Shahgholian, A., Allmendinger, R., Gilthorpe, M, Chen, Yu-Wang; id_orcid, Griffiths, C, Ge, J., Prestwich, A, Griffiths, C., Chen, Y., Chen, Y-W, Ali, R, Gilthorpe, Mark S, Griffiths, Claire, Shahgholian, Azar; id_orcid, Prestwich , Andrew, Ali, Ridda, Allmendinger, R, Mansournia, Mohammad Ali, Prestwich, A., Shahgholian, A   +26 more
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The Relationship of Internalized Weight Bias to Weight Change in Treatment-Seeking Adults with Overweight

, 2022
The present study examined data from a randomized controlled trial exploring whether behavioral weight loss treatment was associated with changes in internalized weight bias. The relationship between internalized weight bias and psychological functioning
Rachel Marshall, Kerry O’Brien, Janet D. Latner, Janet Latner, Rachel D. Marshall, Kerry S. O’Brien   +5 more
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Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Social Identities for People Living With Obesity

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Obesity is a stigmatized disease due to pervasive personal, professional, institutional, and cultural weight bias. Individuals with obesity experience weight bias across their lifespan and settings, which can affect their life chances and significantly ...
Ximena Ramos Salas, Mary Forhan, Timothy Caulfield, Arya M. Sharma, Kim D. Raine   +4 more
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Weight bias: A call to action

, 2016
Weight-related issues (including excess weight, disordered eating and body concerns) are often considered as comprising distinct domains of ‘obesity’ and ‘eating disorders’.
von Ranson, Kristin M., Russell-Mayhew, Shelly, Alberga, Angela S., McLaren, Lindsay   +3 more
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