Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals: is anyone immune?
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PAPER Implicit anti-fat bias among health professionals: is anyone immune?
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether negative implicit attitudes and beliefs toward overweight persons exist among health professionals who specialize in obesity treatment, and to compare these findings to the implicit anti-fat bias evident in the general population. DESIGN: Health care professionals completed a series of implicit and explicit attitude and belief measures. Results were compared to...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Obesity
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0307-0565,1476-5497
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0801745