Weight stereotypes in eating disorder recognition.

IF 3 3区医学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Eating Disorders Pub Date : 2024-07-20 DOI:10.1080/10640266.2024.2380185

Melanie Kressel, Rachel Flamer, Lata K McGinn, Margaret Sala

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Abstract

Objective: We investigated weight stereotypes in the recognition and referral of eating disorders (EDs) by assessing if recognition, health care referral, perceived acceptability, perceived distress, and perceived prevalence of an ED differ depending on the weight of the subject in the vignette.

Method: Community participants (N = 180, age = 19-74) read three different vignettes describing three females with different EDs [anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa (AN/AAN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED)] and were randomized to three different experimental conditions concerning an individual with a different weight (overweight, normal, and underweight).

Results: Across EDs, participants were more likely to recognize a problem, refer for treatment, and rate a higher perceived level of distress in the vignettes of overweight individuals than in the vignettes of normal weight individuals. For BED, a larger proportion of participants in the overweight condition classified the issue described in the vignette as a form of eating pathology compared to the normal weight condition.

Discussion: These results highlight several weight stereotypes that exist in the recognition and health care referral of EDs. Future ED education and awareness programs should emphasize that EDs can occur in any individual, regardless of their weight.

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饮食失调识别中的体重定型观念。

我们通过评估对饮食失调症（EDs）的认知、医疗转介、可接受性感知、痛苦感知和患病率感知是否因小插图中被试者的体重而有所不同，来调查在饮食失调症（EDs）的认知和转介中的体重刻板印象：方法：社区参与者（人数 = 180，年龄 = 19-74）阅读了三个不同的小故事，描述了三名患有不同 ED（神经性厌食症/典型神经性厌食症（AN/AAN）、神经性贪食症（BN）和暴食症（BED））的女性，并被随机分配到三种不同的实验条件中，分别涉及不同体重的个体（超重、正常和体重不足）：结果：在所有的进食障碍中，参与者在超重者的小故事中比在正常体重者的小故事中更有可能认识到问题、转诊治疗和评定更高的痛苦感知水平。就进食障碍而言，与体重正常者相比，超重者中有更大比例的人将小故事中描述的问题归类为一种进食病态：讨论：这些结果凸显了在认识和转诊 ED 时存在的几种体重定型观念。未来的进食障碍教育和认知计划应强调，进食障碍可能发生在任何一个人身上，无论其体重如何。

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Eating Disorders PSYCHIATRY-PSYCHOLOGY

CiteScore

7.70

自引率

9.10%

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期刊介绍： Eating Disorders is contemporary and wide ranging, and takes a fundamentally practical, humanistic, compassionate view of clients and their presenting problems. You’ll find a multidisciplinary perspective on clinical issues and prevention research that considers the essential cultural, social, familial, and personal elements that not only foster eating-related problems, but also furnish clues that facilitate the most effective possible therapies and treatment approaches.