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  2. Body Attitudes Questionnaire - Wikipedia

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    The BAQ was the first body attitudes scale to be translated into Portuguese. The validity of the Portuguese language version was proven in a test conducted on a cohort of Brazilian women who speak Portuguese as their native language. The test-retest reliability was 0.57 and 0.85 after a one-month interval. The test was conducted by Scagliusi et ...

  3. Body Attitudes Test - Wikipedia

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    The Body Attitudes Test (BAT) was developed by Probst et al. in 1995. It was designed for the assessment of multiple eating disorders in women. The BAT measures an individual's subjective body experience and attitudes towards one's own body. It is a questionnaire composed of twenty items which yields four different factors that evaluate the ...

  4. Social determinants of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Two out of every three obese patients read below a 9th grade reading level. With these results, they came to the conclusion that the lower literacy a person has, the less knowledgeable they are in regards to the health effects associated with obesity and the more likely they are to underestimate the need to lose weight. [22]

  5. Social stigma of obesity - Wikipedia

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    Stigmatization of obesity is usually associated with increased health risks (morbidity) of being overweight or obese and the possibility of a shorter lifespan (mortality). Obese people marry less often, experience fewer educational and career opportunities, and on average earn a lesser income than normal weight individuals. [3]

  6. Obesity - Wikipedia

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    Obesity is a medical condition, considered by multiple organizations to be a disease, [8] [9] [10] in which excess body fat has accumulated to such an extent that it can potentially have negative effects on health.

  7. Nursing - Wikipedia

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    Nursing historians face challenges of determining whether care provided to the sick or injured in antiquity is called nursing care. [9] In the fifth century BC, for example, the Hippocratic Collection in places described skilled care and observation of patients by male "attendants," who may have provided care now provided by nurses. [10]

  8. Obesity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Share of adults that are obese, 1975 to 2016. Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs. [1]

  9. Effects of climate change on health in the United Kingdom

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    Rising external temperatures can significantly affect in-patients and healthcare workers in care settings like hospitals. This is due to poor ventilation, insufficient cooling systems, building design, and the use of certain materials can lead to higher internal temperatures.