ArticleObesity surgery2013
The stigma of obesity surgery: negative evaluations based on weight loss history.
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- Residual Stigma and Internalized Weight Bias following Metabolic Bariatric Surgery.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
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- The Impact of Novel Medications for Obesity on Weight Stigma and Societal Attitudes: A Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- How Weight Bias and Stigma Undermine Healthcare Access and Utilization.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Analysis of Online Crowdfunding Among Patients Pursuing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in the United States.Obesity surgery · 2025Article
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- Patient-Related Predictors for Seeking and Receiving Obesity Surgery.Obesity facts · 2023Article
- Does the socio-demographic profile of patients limit access to bariatric surgery?Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Stigma Toward Bariatric Surgery in the Netherlands, France, and the United Kingdom: Protocol for a Cross-cultural Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- The role of weight stigma in weight regain in bariatric surgery.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Review
- General Practitioner's Knowledge about Bariatric Surgery Is Associated with Referral Practice to Bariatric Surgery Centers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Exploring Weight Stigma in Saudi Arabia: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Bariatric surgery in the treatment of adolescent obesity: current perspectives in the United States.Expert review of endocrinology & metabolism · 2021Article
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- Language Matters: Patients' Preferred Terms for Discussing Obesity and Disordered Eating with Health Care Providers After Bariatric Surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Article
- Joint international consensus statement for ending stigma of obesity.Nature medicine · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe present study investigated the stigma of obesity surgery by examining whether attitudes towards a lean person can change after learning that the person used to be obese but recently lost weight either through surgery or through diet and exercise.
methodsParticipants (total N = 135) initially viewed an image of a lean woman or man and rated their impression of that individual on a variety of characteristics. Participants were then shown an image of the individual before she/he lost weight and were informed that the weight loss was achieved through surgery or through diet and exercise. Participants once again rated their impressions of that individual.
resultsAfter learning about the previous weight loss, participants rated the individual who lost weight through surgery as significantly more lazy and sloppy, less competent and sociable, less attractive, and having less healthy eating habits. The individual who lost weight through diet and exercise, in contrast, was not evaluated as harshly. Mediation analysis further showed that the difference between the two weight loss conditions in ratings of laziness, competence, and sociability was due to participants viewing surgery patients as less responsible for their weight loss.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that learning about someone's weight history can negatively impact the way that person is seen by others. Furthermore, these findings suggest that the stigma may be strongest for people who lose weight through obesity surgery because those individuals are not seen as being responsible for their weight loss.
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