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Hagen, Bridget E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Rates of overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions in the United States with 42% of Americans being classified as obese (BMI >30) and 73% as overweight according to the CDC. The prevalence of obesity has steadily increased over the years and is not only a chronic disease in itself but is also a risk factor for countless others…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Behavior Change, Intervention, Health Behavior
Heath, Wesley – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Sizeism is often called the last acceptable form of prejudice in our social world. Weight discrimination has been widely documented in job searches, doctors' offices, promotions, wage gaps, education, and even courtrooms. Despite decades of critical weight scholarship, little research has been done on fat higher education employees. Using the…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Weight, Student Personnel Workers, Social Bias
Rachel D. Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Objective: Internalized weight bias is experienced by young women across the weight spectrum and contributes to the development of eating disorders. Interventions have demonstrated preliminary success in reducing weight self-stigma and disordered eating, but findings have only applied to individuals with overweight and obesity and little is known…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Females, Social Bias, Self Concept
Swope, Stephanie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Background: Overweight and Obesity is defined, according to the CDC, as a weight higher than what is considered healthy for a given height (CDC, 2021). This is calculated using a screening tool for overweight and obesity. Overweight is regarded as a BMI of 25-30, and obesity is greater than 30. The latest data shows that adult overweight and…
Descriptors: Patients, Knowledge Level, Change, Readiness
Aliza Boritz – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The low six-year graduation rate among American college students has been the focus of higher education research and practice for decades. At the same time, the increase in the societal focus on weight status has coincided with an increase in the experience of weight bias and weightbased discrimination in educational settings. However, little…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Social Bias, College Students, Females
Stephanie McCullough Campbell – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Race and weight are two highly salient aspects of social identity across the lifespan. Both are important targets for intervention, but they are acknowledged or understood very differently as issues of bias and social justice. Racism is viewed as a problem and poorly addressed, and weight stigma is rarely noticed. Unlike other domains of…
Descriptors: Racism, Body Weight, Social Bias, Elementary School Teachers
Szelc, Kelley – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Background: Chronic disease can lead to disability, reduced quality of life, reduced productivity, and increased medical costs. Common chronic diseases that develop due to unhealthy lifestyle factors include obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and stroke. An intensive lifestyle education program (ILEP) provides an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Life Style, Chronic Illness, Health Promotion, Disease Control
Karen L. Pugh – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Certified personal trainers and online coaches create training programs that are designed to guide their clients to achieving their fitness goals. Frequently a client will not fully define what their goal(s) is, rather they use subjective terms such as "I want to lose weight" or "I would like to become more toned." From these…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Goal Orientation, Training, Comparative Analysis
Glenn R. Gray – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College students at a large south Texas university have proven consistently that they have a higher-than-average Body Mass Index (BMI), spend less time per week engaged in physical activity, and in general feel that they are less healthy than students in a national cross-sectional survey of college students by the American College Health…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Motivation
Peterson, Kara Danielle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Special education provides an accessible route for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) to be evaluated and to access services. Understanding the factors that influence special education eligibility can provide valuable insight into the school evaluation and eligibility process. This study used structural equation modeling to examine the…
Descriptors: Special Education, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Eligibility
Brittany Putnam Gerringer – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Weight discrimination, the maltreatment of individuals perceived to have larger sized bodies driven by both implicit and explicit biases about weight, is a growing issue in society with deleterious effects for individuals of size (Andreyeva et al., 2008; Hatzenbuehler et al., 2009; Puhl & King, 2013; Swift et al., 2013; Tomiyama, 2014).…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Self Efficacy, Counselor Training, Body Weight
Bradley J. Warren – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The goals of Healthy Campus 2020 are to improve health across college campuses for students. One of the focuses is to increase physical exercise and avoid weight gain and risks for obesity. During this time of transition, many college students do not partake in regular exercise and females are at lower levels of exercise participation compared to…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Health Promotion, Physical Activity Level
Oh, Jessica Hyunjung – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this Doctoral of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to implement and evaluate an in-person educational session to enhance knowledge about eating disorders, risks, and resources through a culturally appropriate manner to a community Korean American women's group. It is also aimed to raise cultural awareness towards weight…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Females, Eating Disorders, Prevention
Kameron B. Suire – ProQuest LLC, 2021
BACKGROUND: Approximately 37% of college students are overweight or obese and the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated weight management in college students. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a motivational interviewing intervention compared to electronic education (control) on body composition and self-determination…
Descriptors: College Students, Body Weight, Self Management, Interviews
Tonica Harris White – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Current research on special education teacher burnout focused on the external contextual experiences leading to burnout rather than the innermost dimensions of the cognitive processes by which special education teachers experience burnout. Therefore, the purpose of this transcendental phenomenological research study was to explore how K-12 special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Burnout, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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