Body Image and sex among postpartum women.

Body image and sexuality both pertain to the body. Positive experiences in one domain are generally associated with positive experiences in the other. Yet, less is known about body image among postpartum women specifically.

Exploring body image among transgender and nonbinary adults: Considering positive body image and the pursuit of gender-affirming surgery.

This study explored body image among transgender and nonbinary adults, including their body appreciation, embodiment, general psychological distress, and gender identity-related pride. This study also considered participants' pursuit of gender-affirming surgery and mental health services. This cross-sectional survey examined participants' ( = 214;  = 28.

An exploratory examination of medical and nursing students' intentions to discuss body image, weight, and eating disorders with their patients.

Background: Although many people have concerns about their body image, weight, and eating behaviors these issues are not usually discussed in a productive manner with medical providers. Thus, we examined nursing and medical students' willingness to discuss patients' weight, body image, and eating disorders and reasons why they may do so.

Method: One hundred and eighty-three nursing and medical students (M = 25.

A dyadic analysis of anti-fat attitudes and partners' diet-related influence among gay married men.

Objectives: The focus on physical appearance among gay men has potential implications for anti-fat attitudes, including those directed toward romantic partners. Partners often influence each other's behaviors including those linked to weight, but most research has examined the of these influence strategies versus their antecedents. To address this research gap, we examined how men's own and their partners' anti-fat attitudes were related to both health-promoting (control) and health-compromising (undermining) types of diet-related influence and whether these associations differed by weight status.

Characterizing emerging companies in computational drug development.

Computation promises to accelerate, de-risk and optimize drug research and development. An increasing number of companies have entered this space, specializing in the design of new algorithms, computing on proprietary data, and/or development of hardware to improve distinct drug pipeline stages. The large number of such companies and their unique strategies and deals have created a highly complex and competitive industry.

Disparities in preconception health indicators in U.S. women: a cross-sectional analysis of the behavioral risk factor surveillance system 2019.

Objectives: Optimized preconception care improves birth outcomes and women's health. Yet, little research exists identifying inequities impacting preconception health. This study identifies age, race/ethnicity, education, urbanicity, and income inequities in preconception health.

Additive and interactive associations among body appreciation, self-compassion, and gender in understanding college students' health behaviors.

Body appreciation and self-compassion are associated with each other and individually associated with important health behaviors. Less is known about their combined associations with health behaviors, although previous work has examined self-compassion as a moderator of negative body image experiences. Self-compassion may likewise amplify the positive association between body appreciation and engagement in healthy behaviors.

Associations of Maternal Age, Education, and Marital Status with HPV Vaccine Uptake and Hesitancy among United States Youth: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 2020 National Immunization Survey.

Study Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is proven to reduce the risk of HPV-associated cancers and lesions. Factors associated with HPV vaccine receipt or rejection have been studied, but specific maternal characteristics driving uptake among teens requires further investigation. The aim of this study was to examine maternal characteristics influencing teen vaccine uptake and intent to vaccinate.

The Use of Area-Level Socioeconomic Indices in Evaluating Cancer Care Delivery: A Scoping Review.

Background: Multiple composite indices of small-area socioeconomic characteristics have been used to examine how neighborhood characteristics influence cancer care, but there is little consensus regarding how to use them. This scoping review aimed to summarize the use of these indices in cancer literature and their association with outcomes.

Methods: A search was conducted to identify studies from 2015 to 2021 that investigated cancer incidence, disease stage at diagnosis, and mortality using area-based indices of deprivation as an independent variable.

Motives for spousal involvement in a Partner's diabetes management: Considering the role of gender and links to diet-related involvement.

Using data from 148 middle-aged and older adult spouses whose partners had type 2 diabetes, we sought to examine spouses' motives for involvement in their partners' diabetes management and whether these motives were related to common types of diabetes-related spousal involvement; we also sought to understand gender differences in these dynamics. Spouses indicated being motivated to be involved in their partners' diabetes management due to altruistic motives to the greatest extent and egoistic motives to the least extent. Results from multivariable regression analyses that controlled for gender, marital quality, and spouses' own conditions requiring dietary changes revealed that all types of motives were related to the frequency of providing diet-related spousal support, whereas only egoistic motives were related to the frequency of exerting diet-related spousal control.

Understanding eating disorder symptoms in same-gender couples: social environmental factors.

Background: Sexual minority individuals are at disproportionately greater risk for eating disorders, yet little is known about the ways in which factors in the social environment relate to eating disorder symptoms in this population. Utilizing an ecological systems theory framework, we investigated the relative relationships of macro level (i.e.

Association of Cost Sharing With Delayed and Complicated Presentation of Acute Appendicitis or Diverticulitis.

Importance: Treatment delays are associated with increased morbidity and cost of disease, although the extent to which cost sharing influences timely presentation and management of acute surgical disease remains unknown. Given recent policy changes using cost sharing to modify health care behavior, this study examines the association of cost sharing with the health of the patient at presentation and with receipt of optimal or minimally invasive surgery.

Objective: To assess whether cost sharing is associated with the likelihood of early, uncomplicated patient presentation or with surgical management of 2 representative emergency general surgery diagnoses: acute appendicitis and acute diverticulitis.

A survey of eating styles in eight countries: Examining restrained, emotional, intuitive eating and their correlates.

Introduction: Restrained, emotional and intuitive eating were examined in relation to each other and as correlates of participants' weight status, body image and self-esteem. In some past research, restrained and emotional eating have been associated with higher weight status and poorer mental health, while intuitive eating is more frequently linked to lower weight status and more positive well-being. However, these eating styles have rarely been examined together and never in a large cross-country sample.

An examination of preadolescent girls' social media use and body image: Type of engagement may matter most.

Research continues to accumulate suggesting that social media use presents a risk to youths' body image, yet the majority of this research has examined late adolescents and emerging adults. This study examined 151 preadolescent girls' (M age = 12.06, SD = 1.

Perceptions of Weight Change Among Romantic Partners: Considering Body Image, Relationship Experiences, Gender, and Sexual Orientation.

Romantic relationship experiences have been found to be relevant to body image and weight in adulthood. In this study, we investigated predictors of heterosexual, lesbian, and gay romantic partners' ( = 500, = 29.3) perceptions of their own and their partners' weight at the beginning of their relationship and 4.

Examining health experiences and body dissatisfaction in two unique samples of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Using cross-sectional data from two samples of adult patients with type 2 diabetes ( = 123 and  = 111), we used an embodiment perspective to examine whether health experiences were related to the extent of individuals' dissatisfaction with their bodies. The nature and strength of associations differed across the two unique samples examined, but weight status had the strongest and most robust association with body dissatisfaction in both samples. None of the associations differed as a function of gender or age.

Testing of a model for risk factors for eating disorders and higher weight among emerging adults: Baseline evaluation.

Although a range of risk factors have been identified for disordered eating and weight status, the breadth of risk factors have been rarely considered within a single, comprehensive model. The robustness of these findings across countries also remains an open question. The present study sampled 6272 participants aged 18-30 years from eight countries in an attempt to evaluate combined and unique predictors for these two conditions, and to explore possible cross-country differences in these models.

Influence of Race, Insurance, Rurality, and Socioeconomic Status on Equity of Lung and Colorectal Cancer Care.

Background: This study evaluated the influence that social determinants of health had on stage at diagnosis and receipt of cancer-directed surgery for patients with lung and colorectal cancer in the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry (2010-2015).

Methods: This study examined non-Hispanic uninsured or privately-insured patients 18 to 64 years of age. Multivariable logistic regression models, including two-way interaction terms, assessed the influence of race, insurance status, rurality, and Social Deprivation Index on stage at diagnosis and receipt of surgery.

The importance of sleep and parity in understanding changes in weight and breastfeeding behavior among postpartum women.

Background: Breastfeeding duration has been linked with the health of both women and their children, but research that considers women's weight change postpartum and practical factors that may impact their quality of life (i.e., sleep quantity, number of children) is limited.

Influence of Race, Insurance, and Rurality on Equity of Breast Cancer Care.

Background: Considerable gaps in knowledge remain regarding the intersectionality between race, insurance status, rurality, and community-level socioeconomic status that contribute in concert to disparities in breast cancer care delivery.

Methods: Women age 18-64 y old with either private, Medicaid, or no insurance coverage and a diagnosis of breast cancer from the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry (2010-2015) were identified and reviewed. Logistic regression models examined the impact of race, insurance status, rurality, and the Social Deprivation Index (SDI) on advanced stage disease at diagnosis (III, IV) and receipt of cancer directed surgery (CDS).

Corrigendum: Exploring Physiological Linkage in Same-Sex Male Couples.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.