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  • Public Health

Background:

  • Weight stigma reduction often involves educating about obesity's biogenetic causes to decrease controllability beliefs.
  • The efficacy of this approach is mixed, with concerns about potential deterministic views and side-effects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and pilot a brief, interactive intervention educating university students on gene × environment interactions in obesity etiology.
  • To evaluate this intervention in the general population and identify mechanisms of change.

Main Methods:

  • Two independent randomized studies with delayed-intervention control groups were conducted in Germany.
  • Participants included university students (N=128) and a general population sample (N=128).
  • Interventions focused on gene × environment interactions in obesity etiology.

Main Results:

  • The intervention decreased weight stigma and controllability beliefs in students two weeks post-intervention.
  • In the general population, the intervention led to decreased internal attributions and increased genetic attributions, knowledge, and deterministic beliefs four weeks post-intervention.
  • Lower weight stigma was predicted by decreased controllability beliefs and increased belief in genetic determinism, particularly in women.

Conclusions:

  • A brief, interactive intervention promoting an interactionist view of obesity can reduce weight stigma in the short term.
  • Increased belief in genetic determinism, despite the intervention's focus, did not cause detrimental side-effects and contributed to stigma reduction.
  • Further research is needed on how biogenetic information impacts weight management behaviors in individuals with obesity.