Associations among enacted weight stigma, weight self-stigma, and multiple physical health outcomes, healthcare utilization, and selected health behaviors

A Prunty, A Hahn, A O'Shea, S Edmonds… - International journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
… enacted weight stigma, weight self-stigma, and multiple health outcomes. … weight stigma
and weight self-stigma with multiple self-reported health outcomes while controlling for health

A model of weight‐based stigma in health care and utilization outcomes: Evidence from the learning health systems network

SM Phelan, KW Bauer, D Bradley… - Obesity science & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… There is ample evidence that obesity is a stigmatized trait and that health care providers as
well as the general public are biased against people with obesity. Weight stigma consists of …

Weight bias and health care utilization: a scoping review

AS Alberga, IY Edache, M Forhan… - … health care research & …, 2019 - cambridge.org
… predicted greater weight bias internalization and greater health care utilization (Hilbert et
al.… examined the influence of weight bias internalization on health care utilization. The theme ‘…

The roles of experienced and internalized weight stigma in healthcare experiences: Perspectives of adults engaged in weight management across six countries

RM Puhl, LM Lessard, MS Himmelstein, GD Foster - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
… In addition to prioritizing research to better understand the impact of weight stigma on
healthcare experiences, utilization, and patient outcomes, our findings indicate the importance of …

Weight stigma and barriers to effective obesity care

RM Puhl - Gastroenterology Clinics, 2023 - gastro.theclinics.com
Weight stigma refers to societal devaluation of people because of their body weight or
body size. In North America and many Western societies, individuals with higher weight (eg, …

Exploring the association between body weight, stigma of obesity, and health care avoidance

CA Alegria Drury, M Louis - … of the American Academy of Nurse …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… effects of responsibility for weight ideology, actual body weight, self-esteem and satisfaction
with health care on health care utilization by women of normative weight as compared to …

Weight stigma: a potential barrier to psychiatric/mental health medication care

KM Kline, EA O'neill, S Behar, VR Winter… - … Work in Mental Health, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… experienced weight stigma or weight self-stigma predicted psychiatric/mental health medication
… to promote utilization, including through the prevention of weight stigma, are essential. …

Weight stigma and diabetes stigma in US adults with type 2 diabetes: Associations with diabetes self-care behaviors and perceptions of health care

RM Puhl, MS Himmelstein, JL Hateley-Browne… - diabetes research and …, 2020 - Elsevier
… their experiences of weight stigma, diabetes stigma, diabetes self-management, diabetes-specific
distress, healthcare utilization, perceptions of diabetes-specific health care. They also …

Mechanisms underlying weight status and healthcare avoidance in women: A study of weight stigma, body-related shame and guilt, and healthcare stress

JL Mensinger, TL Tylka, ME Calamari - Body image, 2018 - Elsevier
weight stigma, which were linked to greater body-related shame. Internalized weight stigma
… provider’s office, but they likely negatively impact their future healthcare utilization, either …

Stigma and eating and weight disorders

R Puhl, Y Suh - Current psychiatry reports, 2015 - Springer
health correlates, as well as its role in health-care utilization and treatment outcomes.
Additional longitudinal studies assessing how weight stigma influences emotional health and …