I'm wondering if you have looked at issues beyond body image--such as the question of food deprivation, PTSD, repeated child-bearing, poverty, lack of activities, etc. "Body image" seems a little overly simplistic to study this much-traumatized population.
Respectfully,
Lisa Fontes, Ph.D.
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>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:39:10 +0100
>From: katy gardner <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: hlep needed with my research
>To: [log in to unmask]
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> I am hoping to do some research with young Somali
> women who have been living in Liverpool for some
> time (5 to 10 years) about perceptions of body
> image and body size. this has come out of concern by
> local health workers that many older Somali women
> are overweight ( and getting CVD, diabetes,
> hypertensioin etc) , but the observation that most
> young women are slim. This will be a very
> exploratory study.... hoping ot discover how young
> women feel aobut thier bodies.........
> I have found quite a lot of research internationally
> both about Somali women who are refugees in the
> West and generally have been found to be overweight
> and the reasons for this.
> I have also found a study looking at body size and
> image in young South Asian women in the UK but I
> just wondered if anyone has done anything with
> Somalis in the UK or whether any of you have nay
> references which might be useful.
>
> the ones I have found very interesting so far are:
> GUERIN et al. 2003 p.91 Physical activity programmes
> for refugee Somali women. Women & Health. 38 (1)
> 2003 pp.83-99
>
> GUERIN, P. et al. (2007) Body Composition and
> Cardiorespiratory Fitness among Refugee Somali Women
> Living in New Zealand. Journal of Immigrant &
> Minority Health, 9 3, p191-196
>
> WARDLE, J et al. (1993). Culture and body image:
> body perception and weight concern in young Asian
> and Caucasian women. Journal of community and
> applied social psychology 3 pp.173-181
>
> LIBURD, L.C. et al. (1999) Body size and body shape:
> perceptions of black women with diabetes. The
> diabetes Educator. 25 (3) pp 382-388
>
> CAROLL, J. et al. (2007) Knowledge and Beliefs About
> Health Promotion and Preventive Health Care Among
> Somali Women in the United States, Health Care for
> Women International, 28:4, 360 – 380
>
>
> thank you very much.
>
> Katy Gardner
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