TUTES Flashcards
Trend of obesity over last three decades and now
Prevalence has increased dramatically during past 3 decades but appears to be levelling off in recent years
Prevalance
…% overweight
…% mild obesity
…% moderate to severe obesity
40% overweight
20% mild
10% severe
Mental health relationship with obesity?
Little or no association with mental health impairment besides mediating factors:
BD, Eating Disorder Behaviours and poor physical health, which are also far more likely for moderate-severe obesity
What is EATING DISORDERED BEHAVIOUR (EDB)?
includes eating disorders and sub-clinical variants of these (binge eating disorder, anorexia, bulima, enos (eating disorders not otherwise specified). )
Prevalance of eating disorder behaviours
…% women and….% men but numbers increasing for both
sexes
10 fem 5 male (likely undereported)
Also association with mental health impairment, particularly symptoms of anxiety and depression
BODY DISSATISFACTION (BD)?
Common in women (“normative discontent”) and, increasingly, men
Perceptual problem.
Strong association with mental health impairment
Prevalence of BD/EDB higher in obese people than in normal weight ppl. T or F?
True
BD and EDB predict weight gain (not to mention low self-esteem, depression, and poor mental health more generally). T or F?
True
Most common type of eating disorder?
binge eating disorder (typically obese)
Psychological WHS?
The result of workplace related stress that becomes overwhelming for employees. Impacts: • Physiological • Psychological • Attitudes •Workplace Performance
presenteeism (early sign of psychological injury in work)
the practice of being present at one’s place of work for more hours than is required, especially as a manifestation of insecurity about one’s job.
In 2006, assault was the ……. most common type
of injury causing death for Australian children aged 0-14 years.
third most common
VERY COMMON) children now exposed to dv is called child abuse
In 2007-2008, ….. notifications to Australian child protection authorities. Only …….. were confirmed/proved (substantiated by authorities).
300 000
only 55 000
(numbers have declined somewhat but are still bad)
In 2012, …. in ….. women and … in …. men had experienced physical or sexual violence from a current or former partner.
1 in 6 women (later re analysed to 1 in 4)
1 in 20 men
…. in …. women had experienced emotional abuse from
a current or former partner.
….in ….. women had experienced sexual violence.
• 1 in 4 women had experienced emotional abuse from
a current or former partner.
• 1 in 5 women had experienced sexual violence.