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Does a Healthcare Worker\u27s Weight Bias Affect Patient Care?
, 2023 Clinical Scenario: Weight bias is a negative connotation towards weight that people feel. This can affect the way that humans interact with one another.
Cannon, Jordan A
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Positioning of Weight Bias: Moving towards Social Justice [PDF]
, 2020 Weight bias is a form of stigma with detrimental effects on the health and wellness of individuals with large bodies. Researchers from various disciplines have recognized weight bias as an important topic for public health and for professional practice ...
Angela S Alberga +7 more
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Body shaming and internalized weight bias as potential precursors of eating disorders in adolescents
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionBody shaming (BS) is a growing phenomenon within the school context, especially among adolescents. Recently, it has been described as an unrepeated act in which a person expresses unsolicited, mostly negative comments about an individual’s ...
Silvia Cerolini +4 more
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Weight Bias and Mental Health Counseling: A Program Evaluation
, 2022 The purpose of this study was to conduct a summative program evaluation regarding the knowledge of weight bias among counselors-in-training. A presentation was created with background information on weight bias, weight bias internalization, application ...
Christine L. Huggett
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Weight Bias and Mindset in Physical Educators
, 2020 While physical education (PE) classes and sports teams create an opportunity to increase overweight and obese students’ interest in physical activity (Price, 1990), these are settings in which such students encounter stigma from PE teachers and coaches ...
Heller, Abigail Caroline
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ObesitiesDespite being acknowledged as a complex and multi-faceted condition, the prevailing view within society is that obesity is the result of individual choices and can be reversed simply by “eating less and moving more”.
Jordan D. Beaumont +3 more
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Clinical observations of weight stigma among nursing students: A descriptive approach
Obesity Science & PracticeBackground Mistreatment of individuals due to their body size or weight stigma has been described as a source of stress and as a deterrent for engagement in the healthcare system.
Myah Kerbyson, Kristen D. Clark
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Weight Bias Among Midwives Toward Patients with Higher Body Weights
, 2023 Nearly 40% of individuals in the U.S. have higher body weights (body mass index (BMI) ≥ 30 kg/m2), a rate that is projected to reach 50% by 2030. Although healthcare provider weight bias toward these individuals has been linked to poor care quality and ...
Bradford, Heather Marie
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Dropping the weight bias: evaluating weight bias reduction strategies for late adolescents
, 2016 Bias against higher body-weight individuals is a significant social problem. It is pervasive and associated with numerous negative psychological, social, physical, and behavioral consequences for those who experience it (see Puhl & Suh, 2015; Puhl et al.,
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Estimation of a Dynamic Model of Weight [PDF]
The ongoing debate about the economic causes of obesity has focused on the changing relative prices of diet and exercise. This paper uses a model that explicitly includes time and spatially varying community-level urbanicity and price measures as ...
Edward C. Norton +3 more
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