Background: Stress during pregnancy and delivery is associated with unfavorable outcomes, which negatively affects maternal breastfeeding self-efficacy. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived stress and breastfeeding self-efficacy of women in Zanjan, Iran. Methods: This descriptive- analytical study was performed on 224 pregnant women, who participated in...

BACKGROUND Previous research with adolescents has shown associations of body weight and perceptions of body size with suicide ideation and suicide attempts, but it is unclear whether these associations are direct or whether a mediating effect exists. OBJECTIVES To determine if body mass index and perceived weight are associated significantly with suicide ideation and suicide attempts, control...

This study explored the role of life events in triggering both weight loss and weight gain and assessed whether a number of variables differentiated between these two types of weight change. Members of a slimming club (n = 538) completed an online questionnaire concerning two events, which had caused either weight loss or weight gain. They then described the event and its impact in terms of a n...

OBJECTIVE Sexual minority girls (lesbian/bisexual) and girls with overweight/obesity experience high rates of discrimination and mental distress. This study explored whether BMI or perceived weight status might compound sexual minority girls' risk for harassment and mental distress. METHODS Data on female students from the national 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 7,006) were analyzed. Lo...

In size-weight (SW) illusions, people learn to scale their fingertip forces for lifting small and big objects of equal weight even though they fail to learn perceptually that both objects have the same weight. The question then arises as to what the separate neural mechanisms are for determining the perceived heaviness of objects and the predicted weight of these objects during lifting. To answ...

OBJECTIVE Obesity has been shown to increase risk of depression. Persons with obesity experience discrimination because of their body weight. Across 3 studies, we tested for the first time whether experiencing (perceived) weight-based discrimination explains why obesity is prospectively associated with increases in depressive symptoms. METHOD Data from 3 studies, including the English Longitu...

OBJECTIVE Recognising overweight and obesity is critical to prompting action, and consequently preventing and treating obesity. The present study examined the association between parental perceptions of child weight status and child's diet. METHODS Participants were members of the Gateshead Millennium Study. Parental perception of their child's weight status was assessed using a questionnaire...