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This study explored experiences of obesity, its perceived causes and motives for surgery, as described by seven Saudi women contemplating bariatric surgery. The women experienced cultural restrictions on their physical and social activities. Obesity embodied these restrictions, attracting stigma and moral failure. Traditional clothing, foods, hospitality norms and limited outdoor female activities were regarded as barriers to weight loss. Bariatric surgery was chosen to protect health and to access normative female roles. Some were encouraged by relatives who had undergone surgery. Opting for surgery reflected both participants' sense of powerlessness to self-manage weight and the social acceptability, within their family context, of this biomedical approach.
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PMID:Experiences of obesity among Saudi Arabian women contemplating bariatric surgery: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. 2347 6

Attitudes, feelings, and family backgrounds of seven very obese women were studied by means of a religious history questionnaire. Some comments are made about this research tool. Three very prominent characteristics of these women were feelings of helplessness and powerlessness, a craving for love, and strong guilt feelings. A possible psychogenic factor in morbid obestity was observed in the backgrounds of five women; pertinent information on the other two was lacking. This factor is a dual dynamic of harshness and indulgence. The onset of obesity seemed to occur when indulgence became the dominating influence over harshness.
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PMID:Toward an understanding of the obese person. 2431 25

The management of obese patients is complex and often generates a sense of powerlessness on the part of caregivers. Psychopathologies associated with obesity are omnipresent and require greater attention from the somaticians to better assist their patients in this chronic disease and to guide their care. Despite the often legitimate reluctance of patients, it remains fundamental to question the symptom, weight, beyond any prejudice. Obesity, with or without bypass project, requires support in the long term by a multidisciplinary team with an holistic approach in order to avoid creating a new failure as is the case with the methods of food restrictions perpetuate eating disorders.
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PMID:[Role of the psychiatrist in the management of obesity]. 2478 34

The lack of significant treatment and prevention progress highlights the need for a more expanded strategy. Given the robust association between socioeconomic factors and obesity, combined with new insights into how socioeconomic disadvantage affects both behaviour and biology, a new causal model is proposed. The model posits that psychological and emotional distress is a fundamental link between socioeconomic disadvantage and weight gain. At particular risk are children growing up in a disharmonious family environment, mainly caused by parental socioeconomic disadvantage, where they are exposed to parental frustrations, relationship discord, a lack of support and cohesion, negative belief systems, unmet emotional needs and general insecurity. Without adequate resilience, such experiences increase the risk of psychological and emotional distress, including low self-esteem and self-worth, negative emotions, negative self-belief, powerlessness, depression, anxiety, insecurity and a heightened sensitivity to stress. These inner disturbances eventually cause a psycho-emotional overload, triggering a cascade of weight gain-inducing effects including maladaptive coping strategies such as eating to suppress negative emotions, chronic stress, appetite up-regulation, low-grade inflammation and possibly reduced basal metabolism. Over time, this causes obesity, circular causality and further weight gain. Tackling these proposed root causes of weight gain could potentially improve both treatment and prevention outcomes.
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PMID:A new model of the role of psychological and emotional distress in promoting obesity: conceptual review with implications for treatment and prevention. 2493 66

Obesity is not addressed with a large proportion of patients presenting in general practice. An increasing body of evidence suggests that health professionals view body weight as a sensitive topic to include in routine consultations and face barriers in initiating weight loss discussions. This study examined the discursive power relations that shape how general practitioners (GPs) understand and talk about obesity using a novel methodology to elicit responses from GPs about raising the topic of weight. Twenty GPs from the South West of England reflected upon novel trigger films simulating doctor-patient interactions, in which a doctor either acknowledged or ignored their patient's body weight. Underpinned by a discourse analytic approach, our findings suggest that GPs both reproduce and resist moral discourse surrounding body weight. They construct obesity as an individual behavioural problem whilst simultaneously drawing on socio-cultural discourse which positions body weight as central to social identity, situating obesity within a context of stigma and positioning patients as powerless to lose weight. Our findings highlight a need for increased reflexivity about competing discursive frameworks at play during medical consultations about obesity, which we suggest, contribute to increased tension and powerlessness for GPs. Trigger films are an innovative method to elicit information and discuss competing discourses.
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PMID:Moral discourse in general practitioners' accounts of obesity communication. 3124 88

Brazil has developed policies for the prevention and control of obesity through the Brazilian Unified National Health System. This study analyzed the characteristics of proposed "models of care" reported by health professionals in primary care in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The methods included interviews and focus groups with professionals and managers in primary care and the thematic areas of food and nutrition in the 92 municipalities (counties) of Rio de Janeiro state and document analysis of federal and state legislation and guidelines. The analysis was oriented by the organizational and technical dimensions of care and the principles of comprehensive healthcare. The main challenges reported by health professionals pertained to adherence to the therapeutic process and feelings of frustration and powerlessness; multidisciplinary teamwork; and unpreparedness for dealing with the complexity of the health-disease process related to obesity. Some principles and guidelines based on the government policy documents are strategic for addressing these challenges, especially: shared responsibility between health professionals and users, which can help avoid the extremes of blaming and/or victimization; appreciation of other gains besides weight loss, which can redefine treatment adherence; and multidisciplinary teamwork to develop a contextualized understanding of the health-disease process and its multiple conditioning factors and for the health professionals to be able to cope with their own feelings and stigmas towards the person with obesity.
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PMID:[Models of care for individuals with obesity in primary healthcare in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil]. 3218 90