Weight stigma toward pregnant patients: An experimental study of medical students.

Objective: To investigate the presence of implicit and explicit weight bias among a sample of medical students.

Methods: Using a between-subjects experimental design, medical students (N = 100; Age = 25.83 ± 2.

Applying self-determination theory to internalized weight stigma and mental health correlates among young and middle adult women: A structural equation model.

Limited research has explored the relationship between self-determination theory constructs (basic psychological needs, autonomous/controlled regulation) and internalized weight stigma (IWS). This cross-sectional, online study surveyed 480 U.S.

Comparing measurement of internalized weight stigma and body dissatisfaction.

Respective conceptualizations of internalized weight stigma and body dissatisfaction are distinct; however, strong relationships between measures of these two constructs prompts consideration about if these are truly unique constructs or whether current measurement tools are not adequately capturing their uniqueness. In this cross-sectional study, 480 U.S.

Changes in basic psychological needs, passion, and well-being of first-semester graduate students.

Objective: Examine changes in graduate student health and well-being in the first semester.

Participants: Full-time, first-semester graduate students (N = 74) from a midsized midwestern university.

Method: Graduate students were surveyed prior to starting their master's program and 10 weeks later.

Effects of physical activity interventions for caregivers of adults: A meta-analysis.

Objectives: Caregivers of adults afflicted with a variety of chronic physical and mental health conditions are at risk for poorer well-being and reduced health related to chronic stress. Physical activity (PA) interventions may alleviate aspects of this burden, as well as provide benefits to physical health. However, notable limitations exist in the previous reviews that have attempted to synthesize the evidence for the benefits of PA interventions.

Change in Perceived Stress and Health Behaviors of Emerging Adults in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented disruptions, restrictions, and concerns about physical and mental health. Emerging adulthood, including the first year of college, is associated with declines in healthy eating and physical activity, as well as possible heightened distress. The impact of COVID-19 may exacerbate these concerns.

Using self-determination theory to understand eating behaviors and weight change in emerging adults.

Introduction: College may be a time when emerging adults establish eating patterns that influence future weight trajectories. Self-determination theory (SDT) suggests that satisfaction of basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, relatedness) supports autonomous regulation of behavior, which is associated with healthier behaviors. When needs are frustrated, individuals feel as though their behaviors are controlled by others, which is associated with unhealthy behaviors.

Go!: results from a quasi-experimental obesity prevention trial with hospital employees.

Background: Worksite obesity prevention interventions using an ecological approach may hold promise for reducing typical weight gain. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Go!, an innovative 12-month multi-component worksite obesity prevention intervention.

Methods: A quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design was utilized; 407 eligible hospital employees (intervention arm) and 93 eligible clinic employees (comparison arm) participated.

Pain coping skills training and lifestyle behavioral weight management in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled study.

Overweight and obese patients with osteoarthritis (OA) experience more OA pain and disability than patients who are not overweight. This study examined the long-term efficacy of a combined pain coping skills training (PCST) and lifestyle behavioral weight management (BWM) intervention in overweight and obese OA patients. Patients (n=232) were randomized to a 6-month program of: 1) PCST+BWM; 2) PCST-only; 3) BWM-only; or 4) standard care control.

Psychosocial and environmental determinants of eating behaviors, physical activity, and weight change among college students: a qualitative analysis.

Objective: The goal of this study was to identify factors that college students perceived as contributing to healthy and unhealthy eating patterns, physical activity (PA) levels, and weight change.

Participants: Forty-nine 18- to 22-year-old students at a midwestern university participated.

Methods: Six focus groups (3 with each gender) were conducted, and data were analyzed using qualitative software to code and categorize themes and then reduce these to clusters according to commonly practiced methods of qualitative analysis.

Obesity and litigation predict workers' compensation costs associated with interbody cage lumbar fusion.

Background Context: Results of lumbar fusion surgery have been mixed and procedures are costly. Interbody cage lumbar fusion (ICLF) has been advanced to improve arthrodesis and clinical outcomes; however, little attention has been given to ICLF costs or potential predictors of these expenses.

Purpose: To depict medical and compensation costs associated with ICLF in a Utah cohort of patients receiving workers' compensation as well as to investigate predictors of costs.