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Dr Elizabeth Evans' Outputs (40)

Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study (2024)
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Evans, E. H., Ridley, B. J., Cornelissen, P. L., Kramer, R. S. S., Araújo‐Soares, V., & Tovée, M. J. (2025). Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 30(1), Article e12765. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12765

Objectives: Parents infrequently recognize childhood overweight/obesity and healthcare professionals (HCPs) also struggle to visually identify it, potentially limiting the offer and uptake of weight management support. This study examined perceptual... Read More about Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study.

Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research (2024)
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Longhurst, P., Nimbley, E., Evans, E. H., MacLennan, K., Gillespie-Smith, K., & Duffy, F. (online). Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research. Eating Disorders, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/10640266.2024.2416340

While diagnostic pathways for identifying Autism in eating disorder (ED) populations have been developed, the field continues to lack validated psychometric tools to measure EDs for use in the Autistic population. Many commonly used measures for EDs... Read More about Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research.

The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales (2024)
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Ridley, B. J., Evans, E. H., Cornelissen, P. L., Kramer, R. S. S., & Tovée, M. J. (2024). The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales. Children, 11(10), Article 1243. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11101243

Background/Objectives: It is vital to identify children whose weight status means that they may benefit from medical or behavioural support, but adult visual judgements of child weight status are inaccurate, and children are seldom routinely weighed... Read More about The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales.

Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review (2024)
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Andres, F. E., Boothroyd, L. G., Thornborrow, T., Chamorro, A. M., Dutra, N. B., Brar, M., Woodward, R., Malik, N., Sawhney, M., & Evans, E. H. (2024). Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review. Body Image, 51, Article 101774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101774

The rapidly growing body of research investigating media influence on body image in Latin America has not been previously comprehensively synthesised. We systematically reviewed studies of the relationships between media use/influen... Read More about Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review.

Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure (2024)
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Hanson, L. N., Gott, A., Tomsett, M., Useh, E., Yeadon-Caiger, E., Clay, R., Fan, J., Hui, K., Wang, H., Evans, E. H., Cowie, D., & Boothroyd, L. G. (2024). Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure. PLoS ONE, 19(7), Article e0306913. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306913

Previous research on body appreciation across the lifespan has produced conflicting results that it increases with age, decreases with age, or is generally stable with an increase in women over 50-years-old. Furthermore, most of the research has been... Read More about Examining body appreciation in six countries: The impact of age and sociocultural pressure.

Furthering Scientific Inquiry for Weight Loss Maintenance: Assessing the Psychological Processes Impacted by a Low intensity Technology-Assisted Intervention (NULevel Trial). (2024)
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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., Fontalvo Acuña, L. S., Kolar, D. R., Mebarak, M. R., Tovar Castro, J. C., & 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.

Evidence-Based Digital Tools for Weight Loss Maintenance: The NoHoW Project (2021)
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Stubbs, R., Duarte, C., Palmeira, A., Sniehotta, F., Horgan, G., Larsen, S., Marques, M., Evans, E., Ermes, M., Harjumaa, M., Turicchi, J., O’Driscoll, R., Scott, S., Pearson, B., Ramsey, L., Mattila, E., Matos, M., Sacher, P., Woodward, E., Mikkelsen, M.-L., …Heitmann, B. (2021). Evidence-Based Digital Tools for Weight Loss Maintenance: The NoHoW Project. Obesity Facts, 14(3), https://doi.org/10.1159/000515663

A Theory- and Evidence-Based Digital Intervention Tool for Weight Loss Maintenance (NoHoW Toolkit): Systematic Development and Refinement Study (2021)
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Marques, M. M., Matos, M., Mattila, E., Encantado, J., Duarte, C., Teixeira, P. J., Stubbs, R. J., Sniehotta, F. F., Ermes, M., Harjumaa, M., Leppänen, J., Välkkynen, P., Silva, M. N., Ferreira, C., Carvalho, S., Palmeira, L., Horgan, G., Heitmann, B. L., Evans, E. H., & Palmeira, A. L. (2021). A Theory- and Evidence-Based Digital Intervention Tool for Weight Loss Maintenance (NoHoW Toolkit): Systematic Development and Refinement Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(12), Article e25305. https://doi.org/10.2196/25305

Background: Many weight loss programs show short-term effectiveness, but subsequent weight loss maintenance is difficult to achieve. Digital technologies offer a promising means of delivering behavior change approaches at low costs and on a wide scal... Read More about A Theory- and Evidence-Based Digital Intervention Tool for Weight Loss Maintenance (NoHoW Toolkit): Systematic Development and Refinement Study.

Experimental manipulation of muscularity preferences through visual diet and associative learning (2021)
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Jacques, K., Evans, E., & Boothroyd, L. (2021). Experimental manipulation of muscularity preferences through visual diet and associative learning. PLoS ONE, 16(8), Article e0255403. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255403

Body preferences are somewhat flexible and this variability may be the result of one’s visual diet (whereby mere exposure to certain bodies shifts preferences), associative learning mechanisms (whereby cues to health and status within the population... Read More about Experimental manipulation of muscularity preferences through visual diet and associative learning.

Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls? (2021)
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Boothroyd, L., Tovée, M., & Evans, E. (2021). Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls?. Body Image, 37, 172-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.02.004

Ultra-thin fashion dolls may represent a risk factor for thin-ideal internalisation and body dissatisfaction amongst young girls. We asked thirty one 5- to 9-year-old girls to engage in interactive play with commercially available dolls which were ei... Read More about Can realistic dolls protect body satisfaction in young girls?.

The NoHoW protocol: a multicentre 2×2 factorial randomised controlled trial investigating an evidence-based digital toolkit for weight loss maintenance in European adults (2019)
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Scott, S. E., Duarte, C., Encantado, J., Evans, E. H., Harjumaa, M., Heitmann, B. L., Horgan, G. W., Larsen, S. C., Marques, M. M., Mattila, E., Matos, M., Mikkelsen, M.-L., Palmeira, A. L., Pearson, B., Ramsey, L., Sainsbury, K., Santos, I., Sniehotta, F., Stalker, C., Teixeira, P., & Stubbs, R. J. (2019). The NoHoW protocol: a multicentre 2×2 factorial randomised controlled trial investigating an evidence-based digital toolkit for weight loss maintenance in European adults. BMJ Open, 9(9), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029425