Obesity

Paper Summary:

This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the experience of obesity, weight loss and its treatment from the perspectives of the formerly obese individual and his or her partner and their experience as a couple. To this end, this study describes the participants' experienced meanings as opposed to describing overt actions or behaviors.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Overview of the Study
Purpose of the Study
Need for the Study
Theoretical Framework
Definition of Terms
Research Questions
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature
Chapter 3: Methodology
Overview
Rationale for the Methodology
Semi-Structured Interviews
Population, Setting and Sample
Participants
Procedure
Instruments
Researcher Information and Biases
Data Collection
Data Analysis
Ethical Considerations
Trustworthiness of the Data
Summary
Chapter 4: Data Analysis
Chapter 5: Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations
Principal Investigator's Vita Auctoris

From the Paper:

"Participation in at least a self-prescribed weight loss program was required of the participants. A specific weight loss program or treatment modality was not part of the neither inclusion nor exclusion criteria. Little emphasis on treatment is in the literature review. The NHLBI algorithm for using BMI to evaluate and establish guidelines for treatment of adult obesity is provided at the appendix. Children and adolescents stories replete with childhood experiences and a significant percentage of obese children remain obese as adults. In fact, this generation may be the first where parents routinely outlive their children. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Adams-Curtis, L., Forbes, G. B., Jobe, R. L., Pokrajac-Bulian, A., Revak, J., White, K. B., & Zivcic-Becirevic, I. (2005). Body dissatisfaction in college women and their mothers: Cohort effects, developmental effects, and the influences of body size, sexism, and the thin body ideal. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 53(3-4), 281.
• Alderson, K. G. (2004). A phenomenological investigation of same-sex marriage. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 13(2), 107.
• Alexander-Mott & Lumsden, 1994
• American Obesity Association, 2002
• American Psychiatric Association (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mentaldisorders (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

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