ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2012
"Not all my fault": genetics, stigma, and personal responsibility for women with eating disorders.
Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 110 citations in OpenAlex.
- Self-compassion in flux: a four-year longitudinal study of intraindividual variations in self-compassion and disordered eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Evaluation of a psychoeducational group program for parents of adolescents with anorexia nervosa: pre-post associations with psychological distress.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- "It didn't feel like they cared": exploring factors that influence privacy and disclosure in disordered eating and eating disorders (DEEDs).Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Experiences of having an eating disorder and perceptions of its etiology: A qualitative study to inform genetic counseling practice.Journal of genetic counseling · 2025Article
- Disease cause attribution and preference for low versus high self-management treatments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Knowledge and attitudes of Dutch psychiatry residents towards anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Application of Genetic Testing for Anorexia Nervosa: An Ethical Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- SEED-AN and a non-specialised, severe mental illness (SMI) community treatment model: perspectives of professionals and patients of a QoL-focussed treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Exploring perceptions of genetic risk and the transmission of substance use disorders.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2024Article
- Teaching gene-environment interaction concepts with narrative vignettes: Effects on knowledge, stigma, and behavior motivation.PloS one · 2024Article
- Public perceptions of people with eating disorders: Commentary on results from the 2022 Australian national survey of mental health-related stigma and discrimination.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- A Narrative Review of Early Intervention for Eating Disorders: Barriers and Facilitators.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2023Review
- Ethical concerns relating to genetic risk scores for suicide.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2021Article
- Expanding boundaries in psychiatry: uncertainty in the context of diagnosis-seeking and negotiation.Sociology of health & illness · 2020Article
- COVID19, the pandemic which may exemplify a need for harm-reduction approaches to eating disorders: a reflection from a person living with an eating disorder.Journal of eating disorders · 2020Article
- Making a murderer: Media renderings of brain injury and Aaron Hernandez as a medical and sporting subject.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
- Biomedical Explanations of Psychopathology and Their Implications for Attitudes and Beliefs About Mental Disorders.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2019Review
- Evaluating the effectiveness of an evidence-based online training program for health professionals in eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Genetics of Anorexia Nervosa.Current psychiatry reports · 2017Review
- Feminist approaches to Anorexia Nervosa: a qualitative study of a treatment group.Journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Medical researchers and clinicians increasingly understand and present eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia nervosa) as biologically-based psychiatric disorders, with genetic risk factors established by high heritability estimates in twin studies. But there has been no research on interpretation of genetic involvement by people with eating disorders, who may hold other views. Their interpretations are particularly important given the frequent presumption that biogenetic framing will reduce stigma, and recent findings that it exacerbates stigma for other mental illnesses. To identify implications of genetic framing in eating disorders, I conducted semi-structured interviews with 50 US women with a history of eating disorders (half recovered, half in treatment; interviewed 2008-9 in the USA). Interviews introduced the topic of genetics, but not stigma per se. Analysis followed the general principles of grounded theory to identify perceived implications of genetic involvement; those relevant to stigma are reported here. Most anticipated that genetic reframing would help reduce stigma from personal responsibility (i.e., blame and guilt for eating disorder as ongoing choice). A third articulated ways it could add stigma, including novel forms of stigma related to genetic-essentialist effacing of social factors. Despite welcoming reductions in blame and guilt, half also worried genetic framing could hamper recovery, by encouraging fatalistic self-fulfilling prophecies and genetic excuses. This study is the first to elicit perceptions of genetic involvement by those with eating disorders, and contributes to an emerging literature on perceptions of psychiatric genetics by people with mental illness.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.