Claudia Sikorski

TL;DR: It is evident that latest life depression is common, particularly focusing on age- and gender-specific rates across the latest-life age groups, and sampling strategies for the old age study populations should be addressed more thoroughly in future research.

TL;DR: This study seeks to answer how representative samples of the lay public perceive people with obesity or overweight status (stigmatizing attitudes); what these samples attribute obesity to (causal attribution) and what types of interventions are supported by theLay public and which factors determine that support (prevention support).

TL;DR: Obese children are the population most at risk for being confronted with stigmatization, making them a target point in stigma-reduction campaigns and internal and external attribution were found to be inter-correlated.

TL;DR: Analysis of research literature regarding health service use and costs of depressive symptoms in late life showed homogeneously that depressive elderly individuals have an increased service use compared to non-depressive, and a one-third increase of outpatient, inpatient, and total healthcare cost of depressive individuals.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the TFEQ is suitable to identify subjects with specific patterns of eating behaviour that are associated with higher BMI values, which may help health care professionals to develop and implement more tailored interventions for overweight and obese individuals.