- 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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