The roles of experienced and internalized weight stigma in healthcare experiences: Perspectives of adults engaged in weight management across six countries

• Rebecca M. Puhl ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca M. Puhl, Leah M. Lessard

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Rebecca.puhl@uconn.edu

  Affiliations Department of Human Development & Family Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2340-2486

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• Leah M. Lessard ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rebecca M. Puhl, Leah M. Lessard

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0129-7518

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• Mary S. Himmelstein ,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, United States of America

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• Gary D. Foster

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations WW, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3960-0332

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