TY - JOUR
T1 - Before i saw a gas canister, now i see a person post obesity-intervention body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban brazilian gorda women
AU - Scagliusi, Fernanda Baeza
AU - Ulian, Mariana Dimitrov
AU - Gualano, Bruno
AU - Roble, Odilon Jose
AU - Unsain, Ramiro Fernandez
AU - Carriero, Maria Regina
AU - Sato, Priscila Morais
AU - Sturtz Sreetharan, Cindi
AU - Brewis, Alexandra
AU - Wutich, Amber
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was made possible by the following major grant: São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), grant number 2015/03878-2. In addition, individual grants are as follows: Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi by FAPESP (grant number 2017/17424-9) and CNPq (grant number 309514/2018-5); Priscila de Morais Sato, Maria Regina Carriero, and Mariana Dimitrov Ulian by FAPESP (grants numbers 2017/05651-0, 2017/19955-1, 2019/00031-0, respectively); and Bruno Gualano by CNPq, CAPES and FAPESP. The authors would like to acknowledge the professionals and monitors involved in the research for their valued work (Fernanda Sabatini, Isabel Perez, Ana Jéssica Pinto, André Vessoni, Luiz Aburad, Fabiana Braga Benatti, Patricia Lopes de Campos-Ferraz, Desire Coelho, Rafaela Faria Lemos, Jhessica Campos Victor, Victoria Lima, Felipe Gregório, Stefan Tanabe, Leticia Pironato, Cristiane Siqueira) and to Professor Sophie Deram and her editor Christian Sperli for providing books to the participants.
Funding Information:
This study was conducted in the context of a seven-month, mixed-methods randomized controlled trial (RCT) in São Paulo (Brazil) (Health and Wellness in Obesity Study; registered at clinicaltrials.gov: NCT02102061), whose rationale, design, and methods are comprehensively described elsewhere (Ulian et al. 2017). It was conducted in the University of São Paulo and funded by Brazilian agencies FAPESP, CAPES, and CNPq. Briefly, São Paulo is the 10th richest city
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how weight stigma operates in the context of interventions that purposefully eschew from a focus on weight itself. We have used qualitative analysis to examine body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban Brazilian gorda women participating in two forms of Health at Every Size (HAES) interventions: An intensive HAES program (I-HAES, n=26), which directly addressed weight stigma and a traditional, less-intensive HAES program (CTRL, n=13). Individual, semi-structured interviews regarding how participants felt about their bodies were conducted post-intervention. Exploratory content analysis followed an inductive approach. The I-HAES-group was more prone to accept their bodies, to feel well-being, to do new things, and to give proactive responses to weight stigma, while the CTRL-group internalized and accepted stigma, reported a lack of body acceptance, and indicated they were less able to challenge stigma in their lives. Interdisciplinary, intensive HAES interventions appear able to meaningfully tackle responses to weight stigma and promote body acceptance, important in contexts where stigma is a major component of how women experience their weight.
AB - Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how weight stigma operates in the context of interventions that purposefully eschew from a focus on weight itself. We have used qualitative analysis to examine body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban Brazilian gorda women participating in two forms of Health at Every Size (HAES) interventions: An intensive HAES program (I-HAES, n=26), which directly addressed weight stigma and a traditional, less-intensive HAES program (CTRL, n=13). Individual, semi-structured interviews regarding how participants felt about their bodies were conducted post-intervention. Exploratory content analysis followed an inductive approach. The I-HAES-group was more prone to accept their bodies, to feel well-being, to do new things, and to give proactive responses to weight stigma, while the CTRL-group internalized and accepted stigma, reported a lack of body acceptance, and indicated they were less able to challenge stigma in their lives. Interdisciplinary, intensive HAES interventions appear able to meaningfully tackle responses to weight stigma and promote body acceptance, important in contexts where stigma is a major component of how women experience their weight.
KW - Health at Every Size
KW - body image
KW - obesity
KW - qualitative research
KW - stigma
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U2 - 10.17730/1938-3525-79.3.176
DO - 10.17730/1938-3525-79.3.176
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85109439244
SN - 0018-7259
VL - 79
SP - 176
EP - 191
JO - Human Organization
JF - Human Organization
IS - 3
ER -