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Understanding the role of gender in body image research settings: Participant gender preferences for researchers and co-participants in interviews, focus groups and interventions (2013)
Journal Article

Participant gender preferences for body image researchers, interventionists and focus group and intervention co-participants have been largely ignored, despite recognition that such characteristics can influence the nature and quality of data collect... Read More about Understanding the role of gender in body image research settings: Participant gender preferences for researchers and co-participants in interviews, focus groups and interventions.

Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children (2013)
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This study evaluated an adapted version of 'Happy Being Me', a school-based body image intervention, with girls and boys aged 10-11 years. Forty-three children participated in a three-week intervention, and 45 children formed a control group. Both gr... Read More about Happy being me in the UK: A controlled evaluation of a school-based body image intervention with pre-adolescent children.

I'm not just fat, I'm old: Has the study of body image overlooked " old talk"? (2013)
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Background: Research indicates that body dissatisfaction is correlated with and often predictive of both physical and mental health problems. " Fat talk," a well-studied form of body image talk in adolescents and university-aged women, has been impli... Read More about I'm not just fat, I'm old: Has the study of body image overlooked " old talk"?.

Weight stigma in maternity care: Women's experiences and care providers' attitudes (2013)
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Background: Weight stigma is pervasive in Western society and in healthcare settings, and has a negative impact on victims' psychological and physical health. In the context of an increasing focus on the management of overweight and obese women durin... Read More about Weight stigma in maternity care: Women's experiences and care providers' attitudes.

How to lose weight bias fast! Evaluating a brief anti-weight bias intervention (2011)
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Objectives. Although experiencing weight bias is associated with poor physical and psychological health, health professionals often stigmatize overweight and obese clients. The objective of this study was to evaluate a brief educational intervention... Read More about How to lose weight bias fast! Evaluating a brief anti-weight bias intervention.

Waif goodbye! Average-size female models promote positive body image and appeal to consumers (2011)
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Despite consensus that exposure to media images of thin fashion models is associated with poor body image and disordered eating behaviours, few attempts have been made to enact change in the media. This study sought to investigate an effective altern... Read More about Waif goodbye! Average-size female models promote positive body image and appeal to consumers.

Seeing the beauty in everyday people: A qualitative study of young Australians' opinions on body image, the mass media and models (2011)
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While governments have called for greater body size diversity in media imagery to promote positive body image and prevent disordered eating, the fashion and advertising industries often argue that average-size models do not appeal to consumers. Focus... Read More about Seeing the beauty in everyday people: A qualitative study of young Australians' opinions on body image, the mass media and models.

GI Joe or Average Joe? The impact of average-size and muscular male fashion models on men's and women's body image and advertisement effectiveness (2010)
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Increasing body size and shape diversity in media imagery may promote positive body image. While research has largely focused on female models and women's body image, men may also be affected by unrealistic images. We examined the impact of average-s... Read More about GI Joe or Average Joe? The impact of average-size and muscular male fashion models on men's and women's body image and advertisement effectiveness.

Anticipating the anti-ageing pill. Lessons from the history of the oral contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy (2009)
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