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| Title |
The stigma of obesity in the general public and its implications for public health - a systematic review
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-11-661 |
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| Authors |
Claudia Sikorski, Melanie Luppa, Marie Kaiser, Heide Glaesmer, Georg Schomerus, Hans-Helmut König, Steffi G Riedel-Heller |
| Abstract |
Up to this date, prevalence rates of obesity are still rising. Aside from co-morbid diseases, perceived discrimination and stigmatization leads to worsen outcomes in obese individuals. Higher stigmatizing attitudes towards obese individuals may also result in less support of preventive and interventive measures. In light of the immense burden of obesity on health care systems and also on the individuals' quality of life, accepted and subsidized preventive measures are needed. Policy support might be determined by views of the lay public on causes of obesity and resulting weight stigma. This study seeks to answer how representative samples of the lay public perceive people with obesity or overweight status (stigmatizing attitudes); what these samples attribute obesity to (causal attribution) and what types of interventions are supported by the lay public and which factors determine that support (prevention support). |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 18 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 5 | 28% |
| Canada | 3 | 17% |
| United States | 2 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
| El Salvador | 1 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 28% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 11% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 299 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 289 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 54 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 39 | 13% |
| Researcher | 33 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 22 | 7% |
| Other | 51 | 17% |
| Unknown | 57 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 78 | 26% |
| Psychology | 68 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 29 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 3% |
| Other | 28 | 9% |
| Unknown | 70 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2023.
All research outputs
#2,410,142
of 25,312,451 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#2,819
of 16,970 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,276
of 129,353 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#29
of 202 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,312,451 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,970 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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