Understanding Weight Stigma and its Impact

What percentage of adults in the United States are overweight or obese?

Which of the following is true about weight stigma?

True or false: Weight stigma leads to weight loss or improved health.

True or false: Systematic research has not been conducted in the field of psycho-oncology?

What effect does weight stigma have on individuals?

True or false: There is evidence that suggests psychological distress may lead to better prognosis in cancer patients?

What is the prevalence of obesity among young people (ages 6–19 years) in the United States?

True or false: Weight bias is more pronounced against men, younger individuals, and Whites than it is against women, older individuals, and non-White individuals.

True or false: Psycho-oncological interventions can help manage pain and fatigue in cancer patients?

What are the consequences of weight bias?

True or false: Enacted stigma refers to negative attitudes towards overweight or obese individuals.

What is the strongest form of weight bias?

What is the term for behaviors or policies that emanate from bias towards stigmatized groups?

Which of the following is true about enacted stigma?

True or false: Cancer-related hormonal changes do not interfere with sexual function?

True or false: Overweight or obese individuals are typically treated with respect and acceptance.

True or false: Changes in body image and self-esteem play an important role in sexual dysfunction in cancer patients?

True or false: The available evidence suggests that weight stigma can be used as a health promotion tool.

What is the relationship between heavier body weight and type 2 diabetes?

What is the most common form of weight-based mistreatment?

Obesity has increased dramatically in industrialized nations in the past few decades.
More than two-thirds of adults in the United States are now considered to be overweight or obese.
Among young people (ages 6–19 years), almost one in three are considered to be overweight or obese.
Heavier body weight individuals are more likely than those of average weight to experience type 2 diabetes.
Heavier body weight individuals are more likely than those of average weight to have shorter lifespans.
Weight stigma is a pervasive and severe form of discrimination that has negative consequences for individuals across a broad array of life domains.
Weight stigma leads to increased eating and other biobehavioral mechanisms that can lead to weight gain or inhibit weight loss.
The available evidence argues against the use of weight stigma as a health-promotion tool.
Stigma against overweight and obese individuals is pervasive and results in negative attitudes, discrimination, and poorer mental and physical health.
Stigma is strongest for women, younger individuals, and Whites, and less severe for men, older individuals, and non-White individuals.
Individuals who are overweight or obese often elicit disgust and are morally discredited.
Weight bias is more pronounced against women, younger individuals, and Whites than it is against men, older individuals, and non-White individuals.
Weight bias is a pervasive and negative attitude toward people who are overweight or obese.
Weight bias translates into treatment that is negative, including social exclusion, rejection, teasing, bullying, and harassment.
Enacted stigma refers to behaviors or policies that emanate from bias toward stigmatized groups.
Overweight children and adults are frequent targets of enacted stigma across multiple life domains.
Weight-based mistreatment is pervasive and increasing.

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