Whether people believe that overweight is unhealthy depends on their BMI

Title: Whether people believe that overweight is unhealthy depends on their BMI
Creator: Dohle, Simone; Bucher, Tamara
Relation: European Journal of Public Health Vol. 27, Issue 4, p. 781-783
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckx042
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: An online experiment with 536 participants was conducted to investigate how people who differ in body weight perceive scientific information on body weight and mortality. The results showed that individuals who were aware that they are overweight were more inclined to trust a study that showed that overweight reduces mortality (P < 0.001). This finding is relevant as the BMI-mortality association remains a matter of scientific and public debate and people's risk perceptions influences their willingness to change behaviour.
Subject: BMI; overweight; weight; health
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1383602
Identifier: uon:31963
Identifier: ISSN:1101-1262
Language: eng
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