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'It's on your conscience all the time': a systematic review of qualitative studies examining views on obesity among young people aged 12-18 years in the UK.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A systematic review of qualitative studies of adults' experiences of being assessed for psychological therapies.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2019Pooled it
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- Stakeholder views of services for children and adolescents with obesity: Mega-ethnography of qualitative syntheses.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Review
- Weight-Based Victimization and Physical Activity Among Adolescents With Overweight or Obesity: A Scoping Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2022Article
- Effectiveness and safety of interventions to manage childhood overweight and obesity: An Overview of Cochrane systematic reviews.Paediatrics & child health · 2021Article
- "I don't want them to think that what they said matters": How treatment - seeking adolescents with severe obesity cope with weight-based victimization.Clinical obesity · 2021Article
- Weight Bias Internalization as an Embodied Process: Understanding How Obesity Stigma Gets Under the Skin.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Adolescents' perspectives on everyday life with obesity: a qualitative study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2018Article
- Overweight adolescents and asthma: Revealing motivations and challenges with adolescent-provider communication.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2018Article
- School Engagement in Relation to Body Mass Index and School Achievement in a High-School Age Sample.Journal of obesity · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo explore the perspectives of young people in the UK on obesity, body size, shape and weight.
designSystematic review of qualitative studies using thematic synthesis. DATA SOURCES: Sensitive searches of 18 electronic databases from 1997 to February 2010 supplemented by grey literature searches. STUDY SELECTION: Studies produced since 1997 using qualitative methods to collect perspectives of people aged 12-18 years in the UK, reporting methods for data collection or analysis. Studies of people with eating disorders and those rated low in reliability and usefulness were excluded.
resultsSearches identified 30 studies involving over 1400 young people from a range of contexts. Young people of all sizes placed considerable emphasis on personal responsibility, and on the social, rather than health implications of being overweight. Young people with experience of obesity described severe, unrelenting, size-related abuse and isolation. Regardless of their own size, young people were judgemental of individuals who were overweight, but those with experience of obesity described an environment that contained multiple barriers to weight loss. Only one study asked young people directly what might support them to have a healthy body size. Study findings were configured under three main themes, labelled with quotes from included studies: general perceptions of size and society's responses ('It's on your conscience all the time'); the experiences of young people who were overweight ('If I had the choice I wouldn't be this size') and these larger young people's experiences of trying to loose weight and suggestions for action ('Make sure, even when it's hard, you've got people there').
conclusionsThe perspectives of young people in the UK, when synthesised across the spectrum of body sizes, paint a picture of a stigmatising and abusive social world. Research and policy need to engage young people actively so as to address the social implications of obesity.
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