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Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has heightened a multitude of stressors across the United States. Parents, in particular, have experienced increased psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Concurrently, weight stigmatizing language related to potential pandemic weight gain has become prevalent. Experienced weight stigma may contribute to and maintain internalized weight bias, which has been associated with numerous negative psychological and eating-related outcomes. The current study aimed to examine the association between internalized weight bias and COVID-19-related distress, uncontrolled eating, and emotional eating among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Participants were parents of youth ages 7-17 (N=189;Mage=40.8 y.o.;66.1% female;82.0% White, 93.1% non-Hispanic) who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk between June 2020 and February 2021. Participants self-reported height, weight, and basic demographics, and completed the Weight Bias Internalization Scale, Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, and COVID-19 Exposure and Family Impact Survey through Qualtrics. Results: Three separate linear regression models were conducted for each outcome variable. After controlling for age, race/ethnicity, and BMI, internalized weight bias was significantly positively associated with COVID-19-related distress (в=.417;p<0.01;R2=0.18), uncontrolled eating (в=.363;p<0.01;R2=0.15), and emotional eating (в=.465;p<0.05;R 2=0.22). Conclusions: Among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic, higher levels of internalized weight bias were associated with greater levels of COVID-19-related distress and two types of maladaptive eating patterns, uncontrolled and emotional eating. Given the potential of parental modeling of maladaptive eating behaviors, intervention methods aiming to alleviate internalized weight bias are essential among parents. Future research is needed to elucidate the influence of parental internalized weight bias on eating- and weight-related outcomes among youth.
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Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and existence of predictive factors for Burnout syndrome in nursing technicians who work in an intensive care unit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach with 94 intensive care nursing technicians. The instruments used were: a form for collecting sociodemographic, occupational, behavioral data and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) in its Human Services Survey (HSS) version. The association between the variables studied and the prevalence of Burnout syndrome was verified by bivariate analysis followed by hierarchical Poisson regression, with robust variance. Results: It observed a prevalence of the syndrome in 25.5% of the analyzed sample. The variables that, after multiple analysis, showed themselves as predictors associated with the higher prevalence of Burnout syndrome were: age > 36 years, working overtime, considering the workload as rigid and being alcoholic. Conclusion: It is concluded that the prevalence of Burnout syndrome in nursing technicians who work in intensive care units and who are in the front line in the COVID-19 pandemic was high and sociodemographic, occupational and behavioral factors were shown as predictors of the syndrome. © 2021, Editora Cientifica Nacional Ltda. All rights reserved.