Research

Are you pregnant? Can you help with Health Psychology research about family weight chat?

Patient & Public Involvement, Research

Are you interested in improving family communication styles and attitudes towards weight gain during pregnancy? Can you help this Health Psychology study? Over to Mitanshi from Manchester Uni to explain more! About the research Hi, my name is Mitanshi and I am a third-year PhD Student in Health Psychology at the University of Manchester. Currently,

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Padme and Anakin meme image where she's asking about whether they accounted for maternal autism...

BMI Blinkers: You can’t see the wood if fixating on the size of the trees…

Research

Today in my inbox, I received this article: “Maternal obesity doubles the risk of developing autism in children“… I mean, what’s new!? There’s always something about how being fat when pregnant increases risks of EVERYTHING… (Except, of course, it doesn’t. Firstly because correlation is not the same as causation, and secondly because some risks are

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Oxford University researchers looking for feedback on BUMP pregnancy app!

Patient & Public Involvement, Research

Hi everyone! As always, I’m very passionate about the importance of Patient and Public Involvement in research (PPI). So I’m delighted to have another project to recommend you get involved with! This one concerns the new BUMP pregnancy app, developed by Oxford University. I’ll let the project team tell you more… Body awareness and support

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