Mariana Dimitrov Ulian
Biographic Data
| ID | 74465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariana Dimitrov Ulian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariana Dimitrov |
| FAMILY NAME | Ulian |
| SIGNATURE | ULIAN M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7861-8597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feeding desires
Enfrentamento do estigma relacionado ao peso corporal no cuidado em saúde
Introdução: O estigma relacionado ao peso corporal, presente entre profissionais e estudantes da área da saúde, prejudica a saúde e o cuidado de pessoas com sobrepeso e obesidade, e deve ser combatido. Objetivo: Este artigo visa relatar os resultados obtidos por meio da aplicação de um curso educativo sobre estigma relacionado ao peso corporal e o cuidado em saúde. Métodos: A aplicação ocorreu com 11 profissionais de saúde e teve desenho misto. N…
De lo macro a lo micro
Las políticas públicas en salud suelen ser planificadas generalizando colectivos y, en muchas ocasiones, idealizando poblaciones a ser intervenidas. Sin embargo, las perspectivas macro encuentran sus límites al ser interpeladas por personas que no se ajustan a los criterios establecidos desde los centros de poder. Aún más cuando se trata de colectivos que atraviesan de manera constante o intermitente periodos de vulnerabilidad. Particularmente la…
More than Meets the Eye
Most studies on bariatric surgery identify personal factors such as “non-compliance” to lifestyle changes as the cause of weight gain and subsequent inability to lose weight. Prior qualitative studies suggest that weight loss patients have complicated relationships with both self and weight, with significant emotional and psychological implications. But how do patients themselves understand the trajectories of their weight gain as related to intr…
Narratives of Weight
Weight stigma is defined as the devaluation of people due to their higher body weight, causing harmful effects to health and is present among healthcare undergraduate students and professionals. Addressing weight stigma in training spaces is crucial to fight against it. This article reports the experience about the construction of the educational course "Narratives of Weight: weight stigma and health care", aimed at healthcare undergraduate stude…
Narrativas de Peso
O estigma relacionado ao peso corporal, definido como a desvalorização de indivíduos devido ao volume de seu corpo mais elevado, ocasiona prejuízos à saúde e está presente entre estudantes e profissionais da saúde. Abordar tal estigma em espaços de formação desses profissionais é crucial para combatê-lo. Este artigo relata a experiência de construção do curso educativo "Narrativas de peso: o estigma relacionado ao peso corporal e o cuidado em saú…
Because I saw my mother cooking
This article describes and discusses the sociocultural process of learning and teaching women's domestic culinary skills. Drawing on descriptive qualitative research, we conducted an in-depth analysis of semi-structured interviews with 16 cisgender women who cooked at home at least once a day and lived in Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre state, Brazilian Western Amazon. Our results suggest that women develop their domestic cooking skills at different moment…
O processo de trabalho na Estratégia Saúde da Família voltado às pessoas com sobrepeso e obesidade em São Paulo
O objetivo do artigo é analisar as características dos processos de trabalho na Estratégia Saúde da Família direcionados às pessoas com sobrepeso e obesidade no município de São Paulo. Ancorado no referencial teórico da saúde coletiva sobre processo de trabalho, foi desenvolvido um estudo exploratório com abordagem qualitativa. Foram realizadas onze entrevistas com profissionais de uma unidade básica de saúde, na zona leste da cidade de São Paulo…
"Você só vai me perguntar o peso e com quem transo?" Diálogos entre alimentação, saúde, gênero e sexualidade
A partir da prática de uma metodologia que considera uma abordagem qualitativa e incorpora técnicas quantitativas, procuramos analisar criticamente a aplicabilidade desta aproximação para entender os significados que os sujeitos gays autodenominados "ursos" atribuem à relação entre às práticas alimentares, à sexualidade homoerótica e às masculinidades e suas possíveis consequências na própria saúde. Realizamos uma pesquisa qualitativa de cunho et…
Mulheres Comem, Mães Cozinham
Este artigo objetiva descrever e discutir as maneiras como a maternidade é praticada e representada nas práticas culinárias domésticas das mulheres na Amazônia ocidental brasileira. Desenvolvemos um estudo qualitativo descritivo, conduzimos entrevistas em profundidade com 16 mulheres que eram mães e que cozinhavam em domicílio. Os dados foram analisados identificando as unidades de significância regulares, expressivas e significativas coletadas p…
I had never seen so many lobbyists’
Objective: To identify and monitor food industry use of political practices during the adoption of nutrition warning labels (WL) in Colombia. Design: Document analysis of publicly available information triangulated with interviews. Setting: Colombia. Participants: Eighteen key informants from the government ( n 2), academia ( n 1), civil society ( n 12), the media ( n 2) and a former food industry employee ( n 1). Results: In Colombia, the food i…
It’s women’s obligation
This article examines constitutive elements of contemporary domestic cooking practices among women who live in the urban area of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 self-identified women and mothers, who cook at home at least once a day. Here, we offer an in-depth analysis of our qualitative data, having coded our interviews with attention to the elements of cooking practices (i.e., understandings, proce…
Triangulation of qualitative and quantitative approaches for the study of gay bears' food intake in São Paulo, Brazil
Purpose The authors aimed to triangulate food intake data obtained by two qualitative methods (in-depth interviews and participant observations) and one quantitative method (food-frequency questionnaire (FFQ)). The purpose of this paper was to analyze the kind of data each method produced and how these different pieces of information are methodologically related to the characteristics and limitations of different methods used and theoretically co…
Imbricadas entre as dimensões de acesso e exposição
Este estudo investigou como as condições socioeconômicas de mães que residem na área urbana de Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, interagem com o acesso a alimentos, tendo como foco as motivações envolvidas nas escolhas dos locais de aquisição de alimentos e dos tipos de alimentos adquiridos. Os métodos de produção de dados empregados foram a entrevista em profundidade e observação participante com 20 mulheres, posteriormente classificadas em diferentes grup…
Signs and strategies to deal with food insecurity and consumption of ultra-processed foods among Amazonian mothers
Although food insecurity configures a public health issue in developing countries going through nutrition transition, there is still lack of evidence on how it is affected by social determinants and its relationship with ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption. Using qualitative methods, we investigated the experience of food (in)security among mothers living in the Brazilian Amazon area, identifying aspects of food insecurity promoting UPF consum…
Dialogues and Tensions in the Eating Habits of Syrian Refugees Living in São Paulo, Brazil
This study investigates the processes of acculturation, interculturality and interactions in the eating habits of Syrian refugees who had a Syrian food venue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. We conducted a qualitative study, with an ethnographical design, with ten participants, using semi-structured interviews and participant and non-participant observation. There were changes in the preparation of consumed and served food products. These change…
Mothers' food choices and consumption of ultra-processed foods in the Brazilian Amazon
Macho food”
Before I Saw a Gas Canister, Now I See a Person
Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how weight stigma operates in the context of interventions that purposefully eschew from a focus on weight itself. We have used qualitative analysis to examine body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban Brazilian gorda women participating i…
It is over there, next to that fat lady
We investigated fat women's perceptions of their own bodies and their experiences with weight-related discriminations, and how these situations affected their well-being. Thirty-nine obese women were interviewed, and three axes of analysis were identified: (1) repercussions of being fat, (2) living with a fat body, and (3) am I a person or just a fat body? These axes were composed of eight themes which had similar meaning or complemented each oth…
Comparing the ways a sample of Brazilian adults classify food with the Nova food classification
Food categorizations among low-income women living in three different urban contexts
Barriers to and facilitators of ultra-processed food consumption
Objective To explore how individuals perceive the availability of ultra-processed foods in their neighbourhoods and the barriers to and facilitators of consumption of such foods. Design A qualitative design was chosen. In-depth, face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted and a content analysis was performed. Setting São Paulo, Brazil. Subjects A purposeful sample of adults ( n 48), stratified by sex and age group (20–39 years and 40–5…
Representations of Syrian food by Syrian refugees in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
Eating practices among low-income overweight /obese Brazilian mothers
We investigated the eating practices of socially vulnerable overweight and obese Brazilian mothers, exploring the relationships between eating practices, capitals, fields and excess-weight. We conducted a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews of 21 women living in three vulnerable urban regions. Content analyses were performed and codes were used to locate actors in relation to each other in terms of 'capitals' and 'fields', forming a t…
Eating practices and habitus in mothers. A Brazilian population-based survey
Concurrent and discriminant validity of the Stunkard's figure rating scale adapted into Portuguese
Eating at the table, on the couch and in bed
Mothers' food choices and consumption of ultra-processed foods in the Brazilian Amazon
It is over there, next to that fat lady
We investigated fat women's perceptions of their own bodies and their experiences with weight-related discriminations, and how these situations affected their well-being. Thirty-nine obese women were interviewed, and three axes of analysis were identified: (1) repercussions of being fat, (2) living with a fat body, and (3) am I a person or just a fat body? These axes were composed of eight themes which had similar meaning or complemented each oth…
Food categorizations among low-income women living in three different urban contexts
Representations of Syrian food by Syrian refugees in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
Eating practices among low-income overweight /obese Brazilian mothers
We investigated the eating practices of socially vulnerable overweight and obese Brazilian mothers, exploring the relationships between eating practices, capitals, fields and excess-weight. We conducted a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews of 21 women living in three vulnerable urban regions. Content analyses were performed and codes were used to locate actors in relation to each other in terms of 'capitals' and 'fields', forming a t…
It’s women’s obligation
This article examines constitutive elements of contemporary domestic cooking practices among women who live in the urban area of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 self-identified women and mothers, who cook at home at least once a day. Here, we offer an in-depth analysis of our qualitative data, having coded our interviews with attention to the elements of cooking practices (i.e., understandings, proce…
Macho food”
A educação física na saúde mental
Este estudo objetivou analisar uma experiência de formação do educador físico como profissional de saúde mental, inserido em uma equipe interdisciplinar. A investigação ocorreu no segundo semestre de 2009, em um Núcleo de Apoio Psicossocial, em Santos, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Foram utilizados, como materiais de análise, os projetos e relatórios produzidos pelos alunos. Os trechos mais significativos destes foram destacados, agrupados segundo…
Because I saw my mother cooking
This article describes and discusses the sociocultural process of learning and teaching women's domestic culinary skills. Drawing on descriptive qualitative research, we conducted an in-depth analysis of semi-structured interviews with 16 cisgender women who cooked at home at least once a day and lived in Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre state, Brazilian Western Amazon. Our results suggest that women develop their domestic cooking skills at different moment…
Mulheres Comem, Mães Cozinham
Este artigo objetiva descrever e discutir as maneiras como a maternidade é praticada e representada nas práticas culinárias domésticas das mulheres na Amazônia ocidental brasileira. Desenvolvemos um estudo qualitativo descritivo, conduzimos entrevistas em profundidade com 16 mulheres que eram mães e que cozinhavam em domicílio. Os dados foram analisados identificando as unidades de significância regulares, expressivas e significativas coletadas p…
Before I Saw a Gas Canister, Now I See a Person
Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how weight stigma operates in the context of interventions that purposefully eschew from a focus on weight itself. We have used qualitative analysis to examine body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban Brazilian gorda women participating i…
Comparing the ways a sample of Brazilian adults classify food with the Nova food classification
Strategies used by overweight and obese low-income mothers to feed their families in urban Brazil
Nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint among men with eating disorders
Concurrent and discriminant validity of the Stunkard's figure rating scale adapted into Portuguese
Nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint among men with eating disorders
Comparison of eating attitudes among university students from the five Brazilian regions
Eating attitudes can be defined as beliefs, thoughts, feelings, behavior and relationship with food. They can influence people's food choices and health status. The scope of this paper is to compare eating attitudes of university students from different regions of Brazil and investigate possible associations and correlations with nutritional status, age, individual income and parental education. 2489 female university students in the area of heal…
"Equivalência Semântica da versão em português do "Body Change Inventory
Com o crescimento das pesquisas acerca dos componentes da imagem corporal, fazem-se necessários instrumentos válidos que avaliem suas dimensões. O Body Change Inventory (BCI) avalia as estratégias adotadas para modificação do corpo entre adolescentes. O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever o processo de tradução e avaliação da equivalência semântica do BCI para a língua portuguesa. O processo envolveu as etapas de (1) tradução do questionário para…
Factors associated with overweight in children living in the neighbourhoods of an urban area of Brazil
Objective The present study aimed to investigate the individual and family determinants of being overweight among children younger than 10 years of age. Design Cross-sectional survey. Direct data on children's age, food intake, physical activity, type of transportation used and anthropometric measurements, as well as the education level of the mothers, were collected by trained interviewers. Setting Population-based study in the city of Santos, B…
A educação física na saúde mental
Este estudo objetivou analisar uma experiência de formação do educador físico como profissional de saúde mental, inserido em uma equipe interdisciplinar. A investigação ocorreu no segundo semestre de 2009, em um Núcleo de Apoio Psicossocial, em Santos, estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Foram utilizados, como materiais de análise, os projetos e relatórios produzidos pelos alunos. Os trechos mais significativos destes foram destacados, agrupados segundo…
Eating practices and habitus in mothers. A Brazilian population-based survey
The use of Pierre Bourdieu's distinction concepts in scientific articles studying food and eating
Family meals and eating practices among mothers in Santos, Brazil
Eating at the table, on the couch and in bed
Adaptação transcultural para o português dos Questionários de Desejos Intensos por Comida – Estado ou Traço (QDIC-E e QDIC-T) dos State and Trait Food-Cravings Questionnaires (FCQ-S and FCQ-T)
Este estudo objetivou apresentar a adaptação transcultural dos Questionários de Desejos Intensos por Comida – Estado ou Traço (QDIC-E e QDIC-T) dos State and Trait Food-Cravings Questionnaires (FCQ-S and FCQ-T) para o Português. Fez-se a tradução e a retradução dos instrumentos, a avaliação da equivalência conceitual, operacional e de itens por especialistas da área e a avaliação dos instrumentos por uma amostra de universitários, por meio da ava…
Strategies used by overweight and obese low-income mothers to feed their families in urban Brazil
Barriers to and facilitators of ultra-processed food consumption
Objective To explore how individuals perceive the availability of ultra-processed foods in their neighbourhoods and the barriers to and facilitators of consumption of such foods. Design A qualitative design was chosen. In-depth, face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted and a content analysis was performed. Setting São Paulo, Brazil. Subjects A purposeful sample of adults ( n 48), stratified by sex and age group (20–39 years and 40–5…
Representations of Syrian food by Syrian refugees in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
Eating practices among low-income overweight /obese Brazilian mothers
We investigated the eating practices of socially vulnerable overweight and obese Brazilian mothers, exploring the relationships between eating practices, capitals, fields and excess-weight. We conducted a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews of 21 women living in three vulnerable urban regions. Content analyses were performed and codes were used to locate actors in relation to each other in terms of 'capitals' and 'fields', forming a t…
Comparing the ways a sample of Brazilian adults classify food with the Nova food classification
Food categorizations among low-income women living in three different urban contexts
Signs and strategies to deal with food insecurity and consumption of ultra-processed foods among Amazonian mothers
Although food insecurity configures a public health issue in developing countries going through nutrition transition, there is still lack of evidence on how it is affected by social determinants and its relationship with ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption. Using qualitative methods, we investigated the experience of food (in)security among mothers living in the Brazilian Amazon area, identifying aspects of food insecurity promoting UPF consum…
Dialogues and Tensions in the Eating Habits of Syrian Refugees Living in São Paulo, Brazil
This study investigates the processes of acculturation, interculturality and interactions in the eating habits of Syrian refugees who had a Syrian food venue in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. We conducted a qualitative study, with an ethnographical design, with ten participants, using semi-structured interviews and participant and non-participant observation. There were changes in the preparation of consumed and served food products. These change…
Mothers' food choices and consumption of ultra-processed foods in the Brazilian Amazon
Macho food”
Before I Saw a Gas Canister, Now I See a Person
Weight stigma is reportedly globalizing, but there is limited evidence of how concerns around weight change are impacting those in many places. Additionally, few studies to date have considered how weight stigma operates in the context of interventions that purposefully eschew from a focus on weight itself. We have used qualitative analysis to examine body acceptance and responses to weight stigma among urban Brazilian gorda women participating i…
It is over there, next to that fat lady
We investigated fat women's perceptions of their own bodies and their experiences with weight-related discriminations, and how these situations affected their well-being. Thirty-nine obese women were interviewed, and three axes of analysis were identified: (1) repercussions of being fat, (2) living with a fat body, and (3) am I a person or just a fat body? These axes were composed of eight themes which had similar meaning or complemented each oth…
I had never seen so many lobbyists’
Objective: To identify and monitor food industry use of political practices during the adoption of nutrition warning labels (WL) in Colombia. Design: Document analysis of publicly available information triangulated with interviews. Setting: Colombia. Participants: Eighteen key informants from the government ( n 2), academia ( n 1), civil society ( n 12), the media ( n 2) and a former food industry employee ( n 1). Results: In Colombia, the food i…
It’s women’s obligation
This article examines constitutive elements of contemporary domestic cooking practices among women who live in the urban area of Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 16 self-identified women and mothers, who cook at home at least once a day. Here, we offer an in-depth analysis of our qualitative data, having coded our interviews with attention to the elements of cooking practices (i.e., understandings, proce…
Psychology (24 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Qualitative research (11 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (9 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (9 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (8 works)