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Trial reportJournal of nutrition education and behavior2023

Using Educational Videos and Perspective-Taking to Communicate Gene-By-Environment Interaction Concepts about Eating Behavior: Effects on Empathy and Weight Stigma.

Alison Jane Martingano, Sydney H Telaak, Emma M Schopp, Christopher Fortney, Alexander P Dolwick, Susan Carnell, Sapna Batheja, Susan Persky

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Alison Jane MartinganoSocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Sydney H TelaakSocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Emma M SchoppSocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Christopher FortneySocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Alexander P DolwickSocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
Susan CarnellDivision of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
Sapna BathejaDepartment of Food and Nutrition Studies, College of Health and Human Services, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.
Susan PerskySocial and Behavioral Research Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Electronic address: perskys@mail.nih.gov.

Funding

Communication of genomic information in clinical, community, and digital contextsZIAHG200383 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI PERSKY, SUSAN · 2012 to 2025
$3.5M
Eating and Feeding Behavior: Exploring Phenotypes and Influencing OutcomesZIAHG200396 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI PERSKY, SUSAN · 2015 to 2025
$2.4M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HG200383Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HG200396
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThis study investigated whether education about gene-by-environment interaction (G × E) concepts could improve G × E knowledge and positively affect empathy and weight stigma.

designWe conducted a randomized trial using a 2 × 2 between-subjects design.

settingOnline.

participantsFive hundred eighty-two American participants from the Prolific platform.

interventionParticipants were randomly assigned to watch an educational or a control video. Participants then watched a set of vignette scenarios that depicted what it is like to have a predisposition toward obesogenic eating behaviors from either a first-person or third-person perspective. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Participants completed questionnaires measuring G × E knowledge, causal attributions, weight stigma, and empathy postintervention. ANALYSIS: Two-by-two between-subjects ANOVAs and exploratory mediation analyses were conducted.

resultsParticipants who watched the educational video demonstrated greater G × E knowledge, reported higher empathy toward the characters in the vignette scenarios and held fewer stigmatizing attitudes (notably blame) toward individuals with higher weight. Exploratory mediation analyses indicated that the educational video led to these positive downstream effects by increasing the extent to which participants attributed genetic causes to eating behaviors. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Education about G × E causes of eating behaviors can have beneficial downstream effects on attitudes toward people with higher weight.

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EmpathyWeight PrejudiceAttitudeFeeding BehaviorGene-Environment InteractionHumansOverweightSocial Stigmaeating behaviorempathygene-environment interactionperspective-takingweight stigma

Identifiers

PMID36621267
PMCPMC9833839

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