Direct-care staff body mass index in a state mental hospital: Staff obesity may impair role modeling for patients

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 989-991

  Vieweg, W Victor R ^a,c   Maxfield, Maxcine ^b   Lewis, Robert E ^a,b   Pennington, Brigitte ^b   Pandurangi, Anand ^a   Silverman, Joel J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Piedmont Geriatric Hospital   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index (BMI); Direct care staff; Obesity; Race; Sex; State mental hospital

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RACE; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 23144464978     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.04.039     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. American Diabetes Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and North American Association for the Study of Obesity Consensus development conference on antipsychotic drugs and obesity and diabetes Diabetes Care 27 2004 596 601
2. D.S. Freedman, L.K. Khan, M.K. Serdula, D.A. Galuska, and W.H. Dietz Trends and correlates of class 3 obesity in the United States from 1990 through 2000 JAMA 288 2002 1758 1761
3. K.M. McTigue, J.M. Garrett, and B.M. Popkin The natural history of the development of obesity in a cohort of young U.S. adults between 1981 and 1998 Arch. Intern. Med. 136 2002 857 864
4. A. Must, J. Spadano, E.H. Coakley, A.E. Field, G. Colditz, and W.H. Dietz The disease burden associated with overweight and obesity JAMA 282 1999 1523 1529
5. National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute, 2004. Calculate your body mass index. http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm.
6. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Gastrointestinal surgery for severe obesity: proceedings of a National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 55 2 suppl. 1992 615S 619S
7. W.V.R. Vieweg, M. Thomas, M. Janisko, M. Booth, A. Fernandez, A. Pandurangi, and J.J. Silverman Patient and direct-care staff body mass index in a state mental hospital. Implications for management Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 110 2004 69 72