Jane Ogden
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 241042 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jane Ogden |
| PRENOMES | Jane |
| SOBRENOME | Ogden |
| ASSINATURA | OGDEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Surrey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4271-5621 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 412 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Sabotage, feeding and collusion after bariatric surgery. And the winner is . . .? A psychodynamic and systemic perspective on sabotage and feeding after bariatric surgery by means of a case series ana…
In the context of bariatric surgery, negative social support has recently been conceptualized in terms of sabotage, feeding behaviour and collusion undermining a person’s effort to lose or maintain weight. While sabotage and feeding behaviour are thought to be motivated consciously, collusion is understood as a bond, by which protagonists are tied together sharing an unresolved and unconscious psychological issue such as dependency, domination an…
Help-seeking in A&E for Functional Neurological Disorder (FND)
Objective This mixed-method study aimed to i) describe characteristics of those who attend A&E frequently (FAs) with and without Functional Neurological Disorder (FND); ii) to explore patients’ with FND’s experiences of help-seeking in A&E.Methods and Measures First, a database of NHS FAs (10+ times in a year; n = 99) from one hospital was analysed. Next, FAs with FND (n = 6) were interviewed about their help-seeking.Results From stage 1, 61% of …
Rationalising a spectrum of problematic exercise
Whilst a substantial body of evidence supports the benefits of exercise for physical and mental health, the overfocus on the benefits of exercise could result in harmful behaviours in some individuals. Conceptualised as a behavioural addiction, research often dichotomises the behaviour through a medical diagnostic model. The present qualitative study explored the meaning of problematic behaviour from the exerciser's perspective. Nineteen UK-based…
Medical, subjective and objective forms of exercise dependence and the role of learning, cognitive and emotional biases
Despite numerous benefits of regular exercise, research has demonstrated some people develop problematic exercise behaviour, with ongoing debates regarding the definition. This study defined three approaches: a traditional medical model including for example withdrawal symptoms; a subjective approach whereby individuals identify their own problematic exercise; and an objective perspective involving persistent exercise despite negative consequence…
Much more than a biological phenomenon
Whilst 'brain fog' is mostly considered a biological problem little is understood about an individual's experience. This qualitative study explored women's experiences of brain fog focusing on those at the start (aged 18-25; n = 10) and end (aged 45-60; n = 10) of their reproductive journey. Descriptive thematic analysis described three themes: (i) 'daily disruptions' describing cognitive dysfunctions and the main triggers; (ii) 'the cycle of imp…
Patients' experiences of living with Long Covid and their beliefs about the role of psychology in their condition
Some patients with chronic conditions are unreceptive to a psychological approach. This study aimed to explore the experience of Long Covid (LC) with an emphasis on patients' beliefs about the role of psychology. UK participants ( n = 14) with either self-reported or diagnosed LC took part in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis described three main themes: 'Living in uncertainty', 'Why should I trust you if you don't believe me?' and 'O…
A content analysis of the frequency of fat talk in Walt Disney animation films (1937–2021)
Purpose Previous research demonstrates a consistent association between the media and body and eating related issues in children. Recent research has highlighted a role for “fat talk” to describe discourses around body size and food. One key source of media information is Disney animation films, yet to date no research study has explored the verbal content of this genre. Design/methodology/approach The present study used a content analysis to exa…
The relationship between caregivers and daughters’ food and body shape scripts
Research indicates a key role for parenting in a daughter's relationship with food and body shape. One possible mechanism for this translational process is through scripts. The present study used a dyadic design to investigate the relationship between caregivers and daughters' scripts regarding food and body shape. Caregivers (n = 40) and their daughters (n = 40) rated word lists of their current and childhood scripts and caregivers completed an …
Is anyone else’s husband trying to undermine them all the time
Online support forums (OSFs) are an increasingly utilised social support resource for bariatric surgery (BS) patients. OSFs could permit patients to discuss sensitive topics, such as being sabotaged post-BS. This study aimed to explore the phenomenon of BS saboteurs via BS-specific OSFs. Two internet search engines were used to identify BS-specific OSFs. The eligible OSF(s) was searched to identify relevant threads. Thread data were analysed usin…
Health and the Construction of the Individual
Health and the construction of the individual
Introduction: Towards a Social Study of Social Science. Methodology and the Construction of the Individual: The Example of Sex Research. Changing Measurement and the Example of Health Status. Theory as Data: The Example of Health and Risk. The Rhetorical Challenge to Biomedicine: Defining what the Individual is Not. Defining the Individual/Social Boundary: Constructing the Individual as Not Social. Who is the Late Twentieth Century Individual? Th…
Experiences of adult siblings of those with developmental coordination disorder (DCD)
This qualitative study explored the childhood experiences of growing up with a sibling with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) to offer an ‘outsider’s’ view of this condition. Ten individuals who had grown up with a sibling with DCD were interviewed about their experiences. Data were analysed using Thematic Analysis. Analysis described three main themes: i)‘witnessing the challenges for their sibling with DCD’ ii) ‘experiencing the impact …
Body Positivity or Humorous Parody? The Impact of Instagram Imagery on Body Image Concerns
Research has shown that Instagram imagery can affect women's body image. However, it remains unclear how Instagram images are perceived, and which type of images can have a positive impact on body image. In this study (N = 170), we examined whether exposure to body positive and humorous parody (vs. body ideal) imagery would be perceived as critiques of thin body ideals, would elicit photo-based activity in the form of “likes”, and would positivel…
Nostalgia, Gratitude, or Optimism
Research indicates that brief 2-min positive psychology interventions (PPIs) increase well-being during COVID-19 lockdowns. The present study extended this to assess the effectiveness over two-weeks. Participants ( n = 150) were randomly allocated to one of three PPIs; nostalgia, gratitude, best possible self (BPS), or control. The interventions were slightly adapted for the lockdown and were completed three times, every seven days over two-weeks…
Exploring the experience of Gamblers Anonymous meetings during Covid-19
Whilst much research has explored the possible causes and consequences of gambling, Gamblers Anonymous (GA) − one of the most accessed forms of support for gamblers - has been largely overlooked and, to date, only a few studies have explored how members experience this programme. Core to GA is the social interaction between members. From March 2020, however, the COVID-19 pandemic forced GA to move their meetings online. The present qualitative st…
Motivating or stigmatising? The public health and media messaging surrounding Covid-19 and obesity
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore how individuals with overweight and obesity living in the UK respond to the public health and media messaging surrounding COVID-19 and obesity. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interview study with a think aloud protocol. A total of 10 participants self-reported to have overweight, obesity or as actively trying to lose weight were recruited through social media and were asked to think aloud w…
The relationship between humor and women’s body image concerns and eating behaviors
Humor is considered a coping strategy that is associated with well-being and positive self-esteem. The role of humor in relation to body image and eating behaviors has rarely been investigated. This cross-sectional study ( n = 216) examined the relationship between general coping humor and humor styles targeting the self, namely self-enhancing and self-defeating humor, and body image and eating behaviors. Results showed that adaptive self-enhanci…
Assessing feeder motivations and behaviour within couples using the Feeder Questionnaire
Understanding and supporting the health literacy of young men in prison
Purpose Prisons offer a public health opportunity to access a group with multiple and complex needs and return them to the community with improved health. However, prisons are not conducive to optimal health and there are few frameworks to guide efforts. This study aims to generate insights into health literacy across a young adult prison population, specifically examining the level of limitations, barriers and characteristics associated with the…
Identification of factors influencing motivation to undertake time-restricted feeding in humans
The impact of active or passive food preparation versus distraction on eating behaviour
How do children make food choices? Using a think-aloud method to explore the role of internal and external factors on eating behaviour
I try and make my cell a positive place”
The importance of relationships in treatment for chronic leg ulceration
Leg ulcers are a hard-to-heal wound that can have a profound impact on the lives of those that they affect. While a significant body of evidence has explored the efficacy of various treatments for leg ulcers, little research has addressed the patient experience of such treatment. A total of 21 participants were recruited for this qualitative interview study, exploring patient's experiences of non-surgical treatment for leg ulcers. Thematic analys…
Do no harm
This article analyses research exploring medication adherence, help-seeking behaviour, screening and behaviour change to argue that all interventions have the potential for both benefit and harm. Accordingly, health psychology may have inadvertently contributed to psychological harms (e.g. lead times, anxiety, risk compensation and rebound effects); medical harms (e.g. medication side effects, unnecessary procedures) and social harms (e.g. financ…
Expanding the concept of parental control
The role of parental control practices in explaining children's diet and BMI
Psychosocial theory and the creation of the risky self
Distraction, the desire to eat and food intake. Towards an expanded model of mindless eating
Eating style and eating behaviour in adolescents
No man's land”
Purpose Ex‐service personnel face numerous and significant problems upon discharge from the forces. The purpose of this paper is to explore experiences of the transition from military to civilian life and to identify some of the barriers and facilitators to re‐employment. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth interviews were carried out with 11 ex‐servicemen who had previously served in the UK armed forces and analysed using interpretative phenome…
Parental restriction and children’s diets. The chocolate coin and Easter egg experiments
Health-related quality of life and the transformation of symptoms
This paper traces the development of health-related Quality of Life instruments over the last half century. It identifies the emergence of key components of quality of life measurement in other health status questionnaires between about 1950 and 1980 and their formalisation in Quality of Life instruments in the mid 1980s. The common developmental thread that linked these Quality of Life instruments and their precursors was the identification of '…
How do mothers manage their preschool children's eating habits and does this change as children grow older? A longitudinal analysis
The role of topic, interviewee and question in predicting rich interview data in the field of health research
Although texts recommend the generation of rich data from interviews, no empirical evidence base exists for achieving this. This study aimed to operationalise richness and to assess which components of the interview (for example, topic, interviewee, question) were predictive. A total of 400 interview questions and their corresponding responses were selected from 10 qualitative studies in the area of health identified from university colleagues an…
Successful Weight Loss Maintenance and a Shift in Identity
The present qualitative study aims to explore the experiences of dieters who successfully maintain their weight loss with a focus on the transition in perception of self from their heaviest to their current reduced weight. Ten successful women from a slimming club who had lost at least 10 per cent of their weight for a minimum of one year participated in the study. The results showed an identity shift from a previous restrained self towards a lib…
How Do People Change Their Diet
The present study explored how people change their diet over the course of their lifespan and what factors facilitate this process. Twenty participants' narratives were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The participants' narratives indicated that diet changes can occur either with or without the individual's active involvement. We labelled these the active path and the passive path. Four themes emerged denoting the mechanis…
Understanding sustained behavior change
Much research has addressed behavior change but has tended to focus on short term changes. This study aimed to explore the mechanisms behind sustained changes in behavior and involved qualitative interviews with 34 `success stories' who had either lost weight through changes in diet and exercise ( n = 24) or stopped smoking ( n = 10) and had maintained this change for at least 3 years. The results showed that the majority described how their sust…
The role of etiquette and experimentation in explaining how doctors change behaviour
Despite increasing interest over the last 30 years in individual variations in clinical practice, various research studies have thrown only limited light on either understanding or changing doctors' behaviour. This qualitative study explored a sample of British general practitioners' accounts of the influences on their prescribing, and identified the locus of the problem in their defence of professional identity through clinical autonomy, a tacti…
The role of parental control and modelling in predicting a child’s diet and relationship with food after they leave home. A prospective study
Infectious Disease Policy
This paper reflects on current infectious disease control methods, their biomedical history and the management structures they are driven by. It asks whether a broader concept of 'infectious disease policy', with an emphasis on 'process' rather than outcomes, will help to re-frame the control discourse to ensure that infectious disease control is not only a method for preventing and treating infectious diseases, but is also a path for the creatio…
Young women's experiences of arranging and having abortions
Women (n = 54) aged between 16 and 24 were interviewed between one and three hours after their abortion about their experiences. Overall, having an unwanted pregnancy was experienced as a rare event which was accompanied by feelings of lack of control and loss of status. Further, the process of arranging and having an abortion led to a reinstatement of status, control and normality. However, this process was sometimes hindered by inaccessible inf…
How do children make food choices? Using a think-aloud method to explore the role of internal and external factors on eating behaviour
Distraction, restrained eating and disinhibition
To assess the impact of distraction on subsequent eating, 60 females consumed a cereal bar while watching TV, walking or talking, and their subsequent desire to eat and food intake were assessed. No effects were found for desire to eat. But while those higher in restrained eating consumed less overall and fewer calories after watching TV or talking, they consumed more overall and more calories (specifically five times more chocolate) if the cerea…
How meaningful are data from Likert scales? An evaluation of how ratings are made and the role of the response shift in the socially disadvantaged
Likert scales relating to quality of life were completed by the homeless ( N = 75); first year students ( N = 301) and a town population ( N = 72). Participants also completed free text questions. The scale and free text data were often contradictory and the results highlighted three processes to account for these disparities: i) frame of reference: current salient issues influenced how questions were interpreted; ii) within-subject comparisons: …
The Rhetoric and Reality of Psychosocial Theories of Health
Textbooks in health psychology and medical sociology describe these disciplines as a challenge to the biomedical model. In particular, they purport to contest biomedicine's concepts of illness causality, a dualistic individual and outcomes. This article examines support for this 'rhetoric' and examines the discrepancy between the stated aims of these disciplines and the 'reality' of their explanatory frameworks. In addition, this discrepancy is a…
The effects of perceived early childhood attachment and care status on young people’s eating behaviour
Research suggests a link between being in care and eating problems. The present study compared the eating behaviour of looked after young people and their non-looked after peers with a focus on the role of their perceived early childhood attachments. Looked after young people completed questionnaires about their perceived and unresolved attachment to their main caregiver during early childhood (aged 0 to 5), their level of picky eating and food d…
Patients' long-term experiences following obesity surgery with a focus on eating behaviour
This study explored long-term consequences of obesity surgery. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used to analyse transcripts of 10 interviews with patients who underwent surgery 8 or more years ago. Experiences were described under three broad themes: eating behaviours, relationship with food and quality of life. Although patients described variability within these themes, describing different patterns of change, analysis revealed asso…
A qualitative study exploring how mothers manage their teenage children's diets
Research indicates that an unhealthy diet is a risk factor for the development of a range of chronic conditions, including obesity, cancer, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Dietary habits formed in childhood persist into adulthood. Previous research on dietary habits has focused on families with young children. This qualitative study extends the literature by exploring how mothers manage their teenage children's diets. Semi-structured intervi…
Being homeless and the use and nonuse of services
Eight homeless people were interviewed about their experiences of health and social services. Three themes emerged: responsibility, identity, and feeling trapped. Although some felt they were responsible for their own situation and avoided help, most turned to formal channels for help, but professionals were often seen as offering unwanted labels and as being rule bound. In contrast, peers were considered more understanding but colluded with thei…
Fat Chance! The Myth of Dieting Explained
Dieting makes you fat! Fat Chance ! examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Up to 70% of women diet at some time in their lives. They want to know why dieting doesn't work, that it is not their fault that they cannot lose weight, and that it is OK to stop dieting. Jane Ogden shows how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure. She explodes many of the myths about dieting, myths that keep …
Eating style and eating behaviour in adolescents
Beliefs about condoms in 12/13 and 16/17 year olds
The present study examined the beliefs and attitudes which surround condoms and their use. Qualitative data in the form of short essays were collected from 12/13 (n = 148) and 16/17 (n = 63) year olds. The results suggest that condoms are conceptualized in terms of a complex set of factual and evaluative factors such as feelings, responsibility and risk and that younger subjects hold more positive beliefs than the older subjects. The results are …
Psychosocial theory and the creation of the risky self
The Rhetoric and Reality of Psychosocial Theories of Health
Textbooks in health psychology and medical sociology describe these disciplines as a challenge to the biomedical model. In particular, they purport to contest biomedicine's concepts of illness causality, a dualistic individual and outcomes. This article examines support for this 'rhetoric' and examines the discrepancy between the stated aims of these disciplines and the 'reality' of their explanatory frameworks. In addition, this discrepancy is a…
Infectious Disease Policy
This paper reflects on current infectious disease control methods, their biomedical history and the management structures they are driven by. It asks whether a broader concept of 'infectious disease policy', with an emphasis on 'process' rather than outcomes, will help to re-frame the control discourse to ensure that infectious disease control is not only a method for preventing and treating infectious diseases, but is also a path for the creatio…
Young women's experiences of arranging and having abortions
Women (n = 54) aged between 16 and 24 were interviewed between one and three hours after their abortion about their experiences. Overall, having an unwanted pregnancy was experienced as a rare event which was accompanied by feelings of lack of control and loss of status. Further, the process of arranging and having an abortion led to a reinstatement of status, control and normality. However, this process was sometimes hindered by inaccessible inf…
Body Dissatisfaction Within Couples
Nineteen heterosexual couples completed questionnaires concerning their own and their partner's body size. Although women reported higher levels of body dissatisfaction, both men and women reported being dissatisfied with their body parts. Further, the results showed comparability within couples for ratings of the male partner's body size but consistent differences for ratings of the female partner's body size. In addition, both partners reported…
Some problems with social cognition models
Empirical articles published between 1997 and 2001 from 4 health psychology journals that tested or applied 1 or more social cognition models (theory of reasoned action, theory of planned behavior, health belief model, and protection motivation theory; N = 47) were scrutinized for their pragmatic and conceptual basis. In terms of their pragmatic basis, these 4 models were useful for guiding research. The analysis of their conceptual basis was les…
Expanding the concept of parental control
The role of etiquette and experimentation in explaining how doctors change behaviour
Despite increasing interest over the last 30 years in individual variations in clinical practice, various research studies have thrown only limited light on either understanding or changing doctors' behaviour. This qualitative study explored a sample of British general practitioners' accounts of the influences on their prescribing, and identified the locus of the problem in their defence of professional identity through clinical autonomy, a tacti…
Health psychology
Symptom onset and the socially sanctioned pathway
Theories of symptom perception do not explain symptom onset, nor why symptoms vary according to culture and time. This article attempts to explain cultural, temporal and individual variation in symptoms, and presents a new three-stage model of symptom onset. First, it is argued that tensions relating to issues of conflict and control arise as an individual interfaces with their social world and that this requires communication. Second, it is sugg…
Health-related quality of life and the transformation of symptoms
This paper traces the development of health-related Quality of Life instruments over the last half century. It identifies the emergence of key components of quality of life measurement in other health status questionnaires between about 1950 and 1980 and their formalisation in Quality of Life instruments in the mid 1980s. The common developmental thread that linked these Quality of Life instruments and their precursors was the identification of '…
The role of parental control practices in explaining children's diet and BMI
The Impact of Breast Scarring on Perceptions of Attractiveness
This study explored whether breast scarring following a lumpectomy generated negative judgements using an experimental between subjects factorial design. Eight images of women varying in terms of breast scarring (present vs. absent), beauty (average vs. high) and celebrity (as a proxy for familiarity; present vs. absent) were rated by 232 participants. The results showed that scarring resulted in lower ratings of attractiveness and self esteem an…
An exploration of food intolerance in the primary care setting
Understanding sustained behavior change
Much research has addressed behavior change but has tended to focus on short term changes. This study aimed to explore the mechanisms behind sustained changes in behavior and involved qualitative interviews with 34 `success stories' who had either lost weight through changes in diet and exercise ( n = 24) or stopped smoking ( n = 10) and had maintained this change for at least 3 years. The results showed that the majority described how their sust…
A qualitative study exploring how mothers manage their teenage children's diets
Research indicates that an unhealthy diet is a risk factor for the development of a range of chronic conditions, including obesity, cancer, diabetes and coronary heart disease. Dietary habits formed in childhood persist into adulthood. Previous research on dietary habits has focused on families with young children. This qualitative study extends the literature by exploring how mothers manage their teenage children's diets. Semi-structured intervi…
How Do People Change Their Diet
The present study explored how people change their diet over the course of their lifespan and what factors facilitate this process. Twenty participants' narratives were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The participants' narratives indicated that diet changes can occur either with or without the individual's active involvement. We labelled these the active path and the passive path. Four themes emerged denoting the mechanis…
The prevalence of mechanisms of dietary change in a community sample
The psychology of eating
In this new edition of her previous book, the author integrates the interdisciplinary research findings into a broad-based framework. It contains 62 pages of scholarly references and is a resource for those who work in the field of nutrition and dietetics, particularly those who work in weight loss, obesity treatment or the treatment of eating disorders. It also provides insight into the psychology of eating and an understanding about why we eat …
Successful Weight Loss Maintenance and a Shift in Identity
The present qualitative study aims to explore the experiences of dieters who successfully maintain their weight loss with a focus on the transition in perception of self from their heaviest to their current reduced weight. Ten successful women from a slimming club who had lost at least 10 per cent of their weight for a minimum of one year participated in the study. The results showed an identity shift from a previous restrained self towards a lib…
The role of topic, interviewee and question in predicting rich interview data in the field of health research
Although texts recommend the generation of rich data from interviews, no empirical evidence base exists for achieving this. This study aimed to operationalise richness and to assess which components of the interview (for example, topic, interviewee, question) were predictive. A total of 400 interview questions and their corresponding responses were selected from 10 qualitative studies in the area of health identified from university colleagues an…
Being homeless and the use and nonuse of services
Eight homeless people were interviewed about their experiences of health and social services. Three themes emerged: responsibility, identity, and feeling trapped. Although some felt they were responsible for their own situation and avoided help, most turned to formal channels for help, but professionals were often seen as offering unwanted labels and as being rule bound. In contrast, peers were considered more understanding but colluded with thei…
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