ArticleInternational journal of clinical practice2016
Words will never hurt me? Preferred terms for describing obesity and binge eating.
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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
- Public and Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge and Attitudes toward Binge Eating Disorder: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2017Review
- Cardiovascular disease and perceived weight, racial, and gender discrimination in U.S. adults.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2017Article
- Adolescent preferences and reactions to language about body weight.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study evaluated individuals' language preferences for discussing obesity and binge eating.
methodParticipants (N = 817; 68.3% female) were an online community sample. They rated the desirability of terms related to obesity and binge eating, and also completed psychometrically established eating-disorder measures. In addition to examining participants' preferences, analyses explored whether preferences differed by socio-demographic variables, weight status and binge-eating status.
resultsPreferred obesity-related terms were weight and BMI, although women rated undesirable obesity-related terms even lower than did men. Participants with obesity and binge eating rated weight, BMI, unhealthy BMI and large size as less desirable than participants with obesity but not binge eating. Binge-related terms were generally ranked neutrally; preferred descriptions were kept eating even though not physically hungry and loss of control.
conclusionsPreferred terms were generally consistent across sex, weight status and binge-eating status. Using terms ranked more preferably and avoiding terms ranked more undesirably may enhance clinical interactions, particularly when discussing obesity with women and individuals reporting binge eating, as these groups had stronger aversion to some non-preferred terms. Findings that the selected binge-related descriptions were rated neutrally on average provide support for their use by clinicians.
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