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Furthering Scientific Inquiry for Weight Loss Maintenance: Assessing the Psychological Processes Impacted by a Low intensity Technology-Assisted Intervention (NULevel Trial). (2024)
Journal Article
Joyal-Desmarais, K., Rothman, A. J., Evans, E. H., Araújo-Soares, V., & Sniehotta, F. F. (2024). Furthering Scientific Inquiry for Weight Loss Maintenance: Assessing the Psychological Processes Impacted by a Low intensity Technology-Assisted Intervention (NULevel Trial). Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 58(4), 296-303. https://doi.org/10.1093/abm/kaae002

NULevel was a randomized control trial to evaluate a technology-assisted weight loss maintenance (WLM) program in the UK. The program included: (a) a face-to-face goal-setting session; (b) an internet platform, a pedometer, and wirelessly connected s... Read More about Furthering Scientific Inquiry for Weight Loss Maintenance: Assessing the Psychological Processes Impacted by a Low intensity Technology-Assisted Intervention (NULevel Trial)..

Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults (2023)
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Andres, F. E., Thornborrow, T., Bowie, W. N., Chamorro, A. M., De la Rosa, G., Evans, E. H., …Boothroyd, L. G. (2023). Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults. Journal of eating disorders, 11(1), Article 219. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00942-5

Background: Body dissatisfaction (BD) is a growing concern in Latin America; reliable and culturally appropriate scales are necessary to support body image research in Spanish speaking Latin American countries. We sought to validate a Latin-American... Read More about Validation of a Latin-American Spanish version of the Body Esteem Scale for Adolescents and Adults (BESAA-LA) in Colombian and Nicaraguan adults.

The developmental theory of embodiment: Quantitative measurement of facilitative and adverse experiences in the social environment (2023)
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Piran, N., Counsell, A., Teall, T. L., Komes, J., & Evans, E. H. (2023). The developmental theory of embodiment: Quantitative measurement of facilitative and adverse experiences in the social environment. Body Image, 44, 227-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.12.005

The present program of research involved developing and evaluating three fully structured measures of facilitative and adverse social experiences during adulthood described by the developmental theory of embodiment (DTE) as shaping the quality of the... Read More about The developmental theory of embodiment: Quantitative measurement of facilitative and adverse experiences in the social environment.

How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight? (2022)
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Evans, E. H., Tovée, M. J., Hancock, P. J., & Cornelissen, P. L. (2023). How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight?. Body Image, 44, 9-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.11.001

Prevailing weight-normative approaches to health pressure adults to visually categorise children’s weight, despite little understanding of how such judgements are made. There is no evidence this strategy improves child health, and it may harm childre... Read More about How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight?.

Newspaper media framing of obesity during pregnancy in the UK: A review and framework synthesis (2022)
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Heslehurst, N., Evans, E. H., Incollingo Rodriguez, A. C., Nagpal, T. S., & Visram, S. (2022). Newspaper media framing of obesity during pregnancy in the UK: A review and framework synthesis. Obesity Reviews, 23(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13511

Two thirds of women report experiencing weight stigma during pregnancy. Newspaper media is powerful in framing health issues. This review synthesized UK newspaper media portrayal of maternal obesity. NexisUni was searched to identify newspaper articl... Read More about Newspaper media framing of obesity during pregnancy in the UK: A review and framework synthesis.

The associations between autistic traits and disordered eating/drive for muscularity are independent of anxiety and depression in females but not males (2022)
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Galvin, J., Evans, E. H., Talbot, C., Wilson, C., & Richards, G. (2022). The associations between autistic traits and disordered eating/drive for muscularity are independent of anxiety and depression in females but not males. PLoS ONE, 17(10), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276249

Previous research has shown a positive correlation between autistic traits and eating disorder symptoms, and this relationship appears to be independent of co-occurring mental health status. The current study followed a pre-registered analysis plan w... Read More about The associations between autistic traits and disordered eating/drive for muscularity are independent of anxiety and depression in females but not males.

Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women (2022)
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Thornborrow, T., Evans, E., Tovee, M., & Boothroyd, L. (2022). Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women. Journal of eating disorders, 10(1), Article 133. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-022-00656-0

Objective: Technological and economic globalisation has been suggested as a cause of increasing rates of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders globally, especially as regards the impact of mass media on internalised body ideals. This process is r... Read More about Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women.