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What are the food behaviors, attitudes, and beliefs in relation to body size and weight loss of postpartum urban working Black American women?
The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the U.S. adult population is a critical health problem with specific implications in the Black American community. In the literature on weight gain, weight loss, and Black American women, the birth of the first child has been identified as a critical life transition that may contribute to the onset of adult obesity later in life.; The study aimed to identify the attitudes and beliefs of urban working Black American women, ages 19–35, who had given birth to their first child. A convenience sample of participants (n = 67) completed a mailed survey that assessed their beliefs and attitudes towards the benefits of and barriers to weight loss, nutrition knowledge about healthful eating, diet attitude, self-efficacy, body image/fat phobia, hunger perception, food selection and food preparation behaviors, and behavior intentions.; The results of this study showed that attitudes toward weight are heterogeneous in this group, with 30%–40% feeling dissatisfied with their weight and worried about being fat. Overall, they have high nutrition knowledge about some healthful eating practices, perceive themselves to be in control of their food behaviors, do not perceive barriers to weight loss, have the self-efficacy to perform weight loss behaviors, but lack intention to carry out healthful eating. However, behavioral intention was significantly correlated (p value = .00) with knowledge about healthful practices and with food preparation/selection behaviors, which in turn were correlated with self-efficacy. This research suggests that not all Black American women are satisfied with their body and that some suffer to some degree with body dissatisfaction, although not many to the extreme dissatisfaction experienced by the dominant culture. Interventions should thus take into account this heterogeneity in weight attitudes and provide the specific knowledge and food preparation skills to those wishing to address weight issues.
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