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Medical Students’ Attitudes towards Overweight and Obesity

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  • Birte Pantenburg
  • Claudia Sikorski
  • Melanie Luppa
  • Georg Schomerus
  • Hans-Helmut König
  • Perla Werner
  • Steffi G Riedel-Heller

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Objective: Studies from the USA have identified medical students as a major source of stigmatizing attitudes towards overweight and obese individuals. As data from Europe is scarce, medical students’ attitudes were investigated at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. Design: Cross-sectional survey containing an experimental manipulation consisting of a pair of vignettes depicting an obese and a normal weight 42-year-old woman, respectively. Vignettes were followed by the Fat Phobia Scale (FPS), a semantic differential assessing weight related attitudes. In case of the overweight vignette a panel of questions on causal attribution for the overweight preceded administration of the FPS. Subjects: 671 medical students were enrolled at the University of Leipzig from May to June 2011. Results: The overweight vignette was rated significantly more negative than the normal weight vignette (mean FPS score 3.65±0.45 versus 2.54±0.38, p

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  • Birte Pantenburg & Claudia Sikorski & Melanie Luppa & Georg Schomerus & Hans-Helmut König & Perla Werner & Steffi G Riedel-Heller, 2012. "Medical Students’ Attitudes towards Overweight and Obesity," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(11), pages 1-8, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0048113
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048113
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