Understanding overweight and obesity: contemporary evidence-based approaches to delivering person-centred nursing care
To understand how obesity is increasingly being recognised as a complex chronic disease
To update your knowledge of the latest clinical guidelines so that you can provide person-centred care for individuals with overweight or obesity
To contribute towards revalidation as part of your 35 hours of CPD (UK readers)
To contribute towards your professional development and local registration renewal requirements (non-UK readers)
There has been a significant transformation in the way that obesity is conceptualised, moving away from notions of individual responsibility and moral failure towards acceptance that it is a complex, progressive and relapsing chronic disease. The way in which obesity is defined or understood has significant implications for clinical practice and patient care. Therefore, it is essential that nurses continue to develop their knowledge of obesity-related theory, practice and clinical guidelines to enable them to provide compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based care and support to patients. This article provides an overview of contemporary concepts of overweight and obesity and the associated influencing factors. The authors also discuss concepts of weight bias and weight stigma and provide practical guidance for nurses on the delivery of person-centred care of individuals with overweight or obesity.
