FYI. Posting on behalf of the researchers.
We are currently conducting a meta-analysis on the association between weight stigma and engagement in physical health behaviours, which has been pre-registered on PROSPERO (CRD42024505496).
We are therefore contacting authors who have carried out research in the field of weight stigma, to ask whether you have any relevant published or unpublished research that we may be able to include in this meta-analysis.
Specifically, we are looking for research that meets either of the following inclusion criteria:
- Research that measures both weight stigma and engagement in physical health behaviour OR
- Research that manipulates exposure to weight stigma and examines subsequent engagement in physical health behaviour, including both a group exposed to weight stigma and a control group not exposed to weight stigma.
For the purposes of the review, we consider weight stigma to encompass experienced, perceived, anticipated and internalised weight-based stigma, as well as weight-related bias, teasing, shaming, prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping and victimisation. We consider engagement in physical health behaviours to include engagement in behavioural patterns, actions and habits that maintain, restore or improve health, as well as those that may disrupt, damage or otherwise compromise health (e.g., occurrence/frequency/quantity of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, eating behaviour, sleep, substance use, use of healthcare services, uptake of health screening, and medication and treatment adherence).
Do you have any published or unpublished research that may fit these inclusion criteria? If so, please get in touch with Ankita Sehrawat (asehrawat1@sheffield.ac.uk) by 1st April and we can let you know further details about what information we would need from you to be able to include your research in our meta-analysis. If you know of any colleagues who may have relevant data, please do feel free to forward this email to them.