Following on from our roundtable event ’Weight Stigma in Healthcare’, we’ve pulled together some of the key resources and references discussed within the roundtable. If you missed the live webinar, you can watch the recording.
GUIDELINES
Obesity: identification, assessment and management (2022). National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Recently updated guidelines by NICE
Eliminating weight stigma – guidelines for BDA communications. (2021). British Dietetic Association (BDA). Guidelines accessible for BDA members
The current landscape of obesity services (2018). All Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity. A report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Obesity
RESEARCH PAPERS
Pervasiveness, impact and implications of weight stigma; considerations for policy (2022) Brown, A. et al. Health policy review – an analysis of the research evidence highlighting the widespread nature of weight stigma, its impact on health policy and the need for action at a policy level
Our language has not always been right and this is how we are looking to change: Stigma and inequality in nutrition research reporting (2022). Mellor D et al. How language needs to be changed within nutrition research
Effective strategies in ending weight stigma in healthcare (2022). Brown A. et al. Review which identified strategies for minimizing weight bias among healthcare professionals and explore future research directions
Preferences and emotional response to weight-related terminology used by healthcare professionals to describe body weight (2021). Brown, A & Flint, S.W. Insight into the preferred terminology and emotional responses to terminology used by HCPs for both adults and parents to describe their children’s weight
The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account (2021). Flegal K M. The challenges that were faced when publishing a scientific article around obesity
Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals (2021). Matheson et al. Healhy lifestyle habits were found to be associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index
What words should we use to talk about weight? A systematic review of quantitative and qualitative studies examining preferences for weight-related terminology (2020). Puhl, RM. Systematic review of 33 studies (23 quantitative, 10 qualitative) that examined people’s preferences for weight-related terminology
Discussing Weight With Patients With Overweight (2020). Hayward et al. Supportive (Not Stigmatizing) Conversations Increase Compliance Intentions and Health Motivation
An evidence-based rationale for adopting weight-inclusive health policy (2020). JM Hunger et al. Review of literature into review into the current weight-focused approach
Slim chance for permanent weight loss (2018). ED Rothblum. Review into some methodological issues in the weight loss literature – provides some possible reasons why psychologists continue to uphold the conventional wisdom that permanent weight loss is possible
What’s wrong with the ‘War on Obesity? (2018). L O’Hara & J Taylor. Qualitative content analysis of the literature into the weight-cantered health paradigm (WCHP)
Validity of claims made in weight management research: A narrative review of dietetic articles (2010). L Aphramor. A narrative literature review of journal articles in The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics from 2004 to 2008 on weight management research.
Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments (2007). T Mann, et al. Review of studies into the long-term outcomes of calorie-restricting diets to assess whether dieting is an effective treatment for obesity
Relationship between low cardiorespiratory fitness and mortality in normal-weight, overweight, and obese men (1999). Wei M et al. Relationship between fitness and fatness
OTHER RESOURCES
Challenging weight stigma in everything we publish (2020). BDA. Article around the new communications guidelines
Language Matters: Obesity (2020). Obesity UK. Resource for healthcare professionals around improving language
Nutriri’s Weight Neutral Patient Activation Card Nutriti. UK specific Weight Neutral Patient Activation card
Weight Neutral Language Swaps. Nutriti. Language swaps suggestions
Weight Stigma Mindmap. Nutriri. The mindmap used within the webinar, password: MyNutriWeb
Poodle Science The Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) – Youtube video exposing the limitations of current research on weight and health
Weight Stigma Resource Hub. Food Active. Collection of Food Active’s existing materials and signposting to other excellent organisations and resources to help tackle weight stigma
SOCIAL MEDIA
@GilesYeo (Twitter) for Dr Giles Yeo (Webinar Chair)
@BrownAdey (Twitter) for Adrian Brown PhD RD
@DrAMeadows (Twitter) for Dr Angela Meadows
@profpaulgately (Twitter) for Professor Paul Gately
@nutriri (Twitter) for Nutriri
@ASDAH (Twitter) for ASDAH – Association for Size Diversity and Health, promoting Health at Every Size® (HAES)
RELATED MYNUTRIWEB CONTENT
Understanding Weight Stigma and How to Combat It (2022). Blog post by Juliette Kellow
This is was such a great and important session. I work with Local Governments across Europe and food policy makers further afield and will share what I’ve learnt with them. Well done My Nutri Web. All the speakers are good and inspirational.