Coming Soon: An Internalized Weight Bias Assessment Scale for Use During Pregnancy

Weight bias, defined as negative attitudes directed toward individuals who are perceived to have excess body weight, has long-lasting and damaging biopsychosocial health implications (1). Prenatal weight-related experiences are unique given that weight gain is a natural occurrence during gestation that could result in changes to body image and physical health (6). [...]as noted by Diterich et al., a pregnancy-specific internalized weight bias scale is necessary. Measuring internalized weight attitudes across body weight categories: validation of the modified weight bias internalization scale.