在饮食障碍认知中的体重刻板印象.
Melanie Kressel1, Rachel Flamer1, Lata K McGinn1
1Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, USA.
Eating disorders
|July 20, 2024
概括
体重刻板印象会影响饮食障碍 (ED) 的识别和转诊. 超重个体更有可能被识别并转诊治疗,突出需要更广泛的ED意识.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 医学社会学 医学社会学
背景情况:
- 饮食障碍 (ED) 是一种严重的心理健康状况,通常与特定的身体类型有关.
- 社会重量刻板印象可以影响对各种健康状况的认知和寻求治疗的行为,包括ED.
研究的目的:
- 调查体重刻板印象对饮食障碍患者的识别和医疗转诊的影响.
- 评估是否对饮食障碍的认知,治疗转诊,接受性,痛苦和患病率的看法不同,这取决于个体在小幅图中呈现的体重.
主要方法:
- 180名社区参与者被介绍了患有神经性厌食症/非典型神经性厌食症 (AN/AAN),神经性食欲症 (BN) 或过度饮食障碍 (BED) 的女性.
- 参与者被随机分配到以下条件:图片中的个人被描述为超重,正常体重或体重不足.
- 收集的数据包括问题识别,医疗保健转诊的可能性,感知可接受性,感知痛苦以及饮食障碍的感知流行率.
主要成果:
- 参与者更有可能识别一个问题,转介治疗,并感知更高的痛苦在超重个体的 vignettes 与正常体重的个人相比,在所有EDs.
- 对于过度饮食障碍 (BED),与正常体重状况相比,更多的超重患者将所描述的问题确定为饮食病理.
- 这些发现表明,在饮食障碍的识别和转诊途径中,存在显著的基于体重的偏差.
结论:
- 体重刻板印象显然影响了饮食障碍的识别和医疗保健转诊过程.
- 未来对ED的教育和宣传计划必须积极挑战ED只影响体重不足的人的误解.
- 促进人们了解饮食障碍可以在所有体重的个体中表现出来,这对于公平的护理至关重要.
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