Stigma Among Medical Students' towards Overweight and Obesity
Pantenburg, B.; Sikorski, C.; Luppa, M.; Schomerus, G.; König, H.; Werner, P.; Riedel-Heller, S. · Das Gesundheitswesen · 2012 · Heft 8/09 · S. 1 bis 1
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Introduction: Overweight and obese individuals are frequently confronted with weight-bias and discrimination. Medical students and other health care professionals have been identified as a major source of stigmatisation. As data on medical students' attitudes towards overweight and obesity stem almost exclusively from the USA and Australia and work from Europe is scarce medical students' attitudes were investigated at Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany. Methods: A paper-pencil-survey was conducted among a non-randomized convenience sample (n=715) of medical students at Leipzig University from April to July 2…
