Appearance Matters: The Podcast!

Nadia and Jade speak with Dr Issy Bray (​Associate Head of Department for Research and Knowledge Exchange - Department of Health and Social Sciences, UWE Bristol) and Dr Helena Lewis-Smith (Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Appearance Research, UWE Bristol) about body image from a public health perspective. Papers discussed by Issy, Helena, Amy and Anna Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Smith, A., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2019). Adolescent body dissatisfaction and disordered eating: Predictors of later risky health behaviours. Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112458. Bornioli, A., Lewis-Smith, H., Slater, A., & Bray, I. (2020). Body dissatisfaction predicts the onset of depression among adolescent females and males: a prospective study. J Epidemiol Community Health. Lewis-Smith, H., Bray, I., Salmon, D., & Slater, A. (2020). Prospective Pathways to Depressive Symptoms and Disordered Eating in Adolescence: A 7-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(10), 2060-2074. Discussion