Taking action to lose weight: Toward an understanding of individual differences

Annunziato, Rachel A.; Lowe, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2006.04.004

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“…This kind of attitude observed was consistent with the finding that modern working women often excuse themselves from weight management by convincing them and others to have to keep healthy and stoic body to perform their jobs [23]. In this regard, women in this age group can be more vulnerable since they are obligated to their social roles; the more psychosocial stress, the harder successful weight loss [22]. Barriers in weight management such as psychosocial stress should be first identified and resolved when the weight reduction program is designed.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Older women showed generous attitude perceiving their fat appearance as a natural aging process, which underestimated their weight and could fail to motivate them for weight reduction [6,[19][20][21]. Accordingly, accurate perception about body weight is important in weight management and nurses need to provide obese and overweight women with accurate information about healthy weight and health consequences of obesity [7,19,22]. In contrast, younger participants often blamed circumstances that restrict their time to take care themselves due to their busy schedules.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Self-portrait of Obese and Overweight Korean Women based on Lifetime Phase

Shin

Park

Choi

et al. 2016

Korean J Adult Nurs

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Purpose: This study investigated Korean women in between age 30 to 60 who were obese or overweight in order to explore their self-perception based on lifetime phase. Methods: Focus group interviews were performed four times with six to eight participants in each group (a total of 27). Data were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Results: The data analysis from the interviews revealed recurring common themes: heavy heart, heavy body, resigned acceptance of their own condition, and compromise. The study also found that each age group had different concerns: concerning others' gaze on their obese appearances (30s), realizing their aging obese appearances (40s), recognizing red flags of their health with obesity (50s), and becoming ambivalent about their obese appearances (60s). Overall, their perceptions of being overweight were negative and stressful. Women in their 30s and 40s were more interested in their appearances, and thus were more obsessive about weight gain. In contrast, women in their 50s and 60s were more accepting of their physical appearances, and thus were more concerned about living healthy than losing weight. Conclusion: These results may be useful to consider when developing tailored weight-control programs for obese and overweight Korean women. Additionally, strategic approaches for successful and effective programs targeting healthy weight should be based on better understanding about women's self-perceptions and motivations. INTRODUCTIONObesity, caused by changes in dietary habits and lifestyle from rapid westernization, urbanization, and modernization, has been identified as a global non-communicable disease [1]. The prevalence of obesity and overweight in the United States (68%) is the highest in the world, and the situations of Canada or European countries are no different from that of the United States [2,3]. The prevalence of obesity among Korean adults increased from 26% in 1998 to 31.9% in 2011; 28.6% of adult Korean women are obese [4]. Because Korean women may get pregnant and give birth in their 30s [5], they experience weight problems related to pregnancy and childbirth, which are earlier than that of men. The proportion of obese Korean women in 30s and 40s was 34.7%; the rate is even greater among women in their 50s and 60s, and is higher than that of men [4].Obesity and overweight are common risk factors of lifestyle disorders such as coronary artery diseases, stroke, Shin, Nah-Mee·Park, Eunyoung·Choi, Jiwon et al diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension [2]. Therefore, more active management of obesity and overweight is necessary for preventing these diseases. However, a number of interventions for weight loss tend to be ineffectively standardized and thus are insufficient to meeting women's diverse needs. In reality, programs based on understanding women's perception about, or satisfaction with, her own body weight or motivation and influencing factors for weight loss are lacking [6,7]. Moreover, although there have been studies on obesity to improve physiolo...

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Self-portrait of Obese and Overweight Korean Women based on Lifetime Phase

Shin

Park

Choi

et al. 2016

Korean J Adult Nurs

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“…These factors may stimulate the initiation of health behavior only when the weight and health problems are extensive and qual- Wouters/van Nunen/Vingerhoets/Geenen ity of life is more severely disturbed than in the participants of the current study [30,33]. When the high prevalence of overweight and moderate obesity in current society [2] is partly due to its relatively low interference with health and quality of life [57], preventive measures should use the threat of future consequences instead of current consequences as cues to stimulate physical exercise.…”

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Setting Overweight Adults in Motion: The Role of Health Beliefs

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Objective: Health beliefs of overweight adults who did and did not enter an exercise program were compared to identify possible factors that hamper people to enter such a program. Method: Participants (n = 116, 78 women and 38 men) were overweight adults without comorbidities. Self-report instruments examined the burden of suffering, beliefs related to physical exercise and obesity, somatic complaints, and obesity-related quality of life of new participants of exercise programs versus sedentary non-exercisers. Results: The mean BMI of exercisers and non-exercisers was 34.6 ± 7.0 and 32.8 ± 5.8 kg/m², respectively. Fear of injury was higher and perceived health benefits of exercise were lower in the non-exercisers who also more often believed their overweight to be irreversible and attributed overweight to physical causes. The burden of suffering, somatic complaints, and quality of life of the groups were not significantly different. Fear of injury remained a significant predictor of belonging to the non-exercise group after controlling for other variables and multiple testing. Conclusion: Research is needed to examine whether the inflow of overweight people in exercise groups increases when health beliefs are recognized, considered, and discussed both in interventions and in public health campaigns promoting physical exercise in sedentary, overweight people.

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“…African-Americans are also less likely to seek professional assistance for weight loss [10], as well as to trust and feel respect from healthcare providers [11]. As a result, African-American women, in particular, have expressed a preference for managing medical and mental health issues “on their own” [12], which suggests that a community-based approach to weight control may be more acceptable to this population and potentially more effective than hospital-based programs.…”

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Achieving Cultural Congruency in Weight Loss Interventions: Can a Spirituality-Based Program Attract and Retain an Inner-City Community Sample?

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Ethnic minorities continue to be disproportionately affected by obesity and are less likely to access healthcare than Caucasians. It is therefore imperative that researchers develop novel methods that will attract these difficult-to-reach groups. The purpose of the present study is to describe characteristics of an urban community sample attracted to a spiritually based, weight loss intervention. Methods. Thirteen participants enrolled in a pilot version of Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy (3S) applied to disordered eating behavior and obesity. Treatment consisted of 12 one-hour sessions in a group therapy format. At baseline, participants were measured for height and weight and completed a battery of self-report measures. Results. The sample was predominantly African-American and Hispanic and a large percentage of the sample was male. Mean baseline scores of the EDE-Q, YFAS, and the CES-D revealed clinically meaningful levels of eating disordered pathology and depression, respectively. The overall attrition rate was quite low for interventions targeting obesity. Discussion. This application of a spiritually centered intervention seemed to attract and retain a predominantly African-American and Hispanic sample. By incorporating a culturally congruent focus, this approach may have been acceptable to individuals who are traditionally more difficult to reach.

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Taking action to lose weight: Toward an understanding of individual differences

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Self-portrait of Obese and Overweight Korean Women based on Lifetime Phase

Self-portrait of Obese and Overweight Korean Women based on Lifetime Phase

Setting Overweight Adults in Motion: The Role of Health Beliefs

Achieving Cultural Congruency in Weight Loss Interventions: Can a Spirituality-Based Program Attract and Retain an Inner-City Community Sample?

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