Trial reportObesity surgery2019
Video Teaching Leads to Improved Attitudes Towards Obesity-a Randomized Study with 949 Participants.
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- Assessing Weight Stigma Interventions: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Current obesity reports · 2025Pooled it
- Efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing explicit and implicit weight bias in healthcare students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- The Effect of an Education Module to Reduce Weight Bias among Medical Centers Employees: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Obesity facts · 2022Trial
- Weight Bias Interventions for Healthcare Professionals: An Integrative Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2026Review
- Weight Stigma Amongst Nurses and Nursing Students: A Scoping Review of Direct and Comparative Evidence.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Acceptance, knowledge, and attitude of family physicians towards obesity as a chronic disease: a multinational cross-sectional study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- The extent of weight bias against obese patients among allied healthcare professional students in Jordan.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- "Is it time to throw out the weighing scales?" Implicit weight bias among healthcare professionals working in bariatric surgery services and their attitude towards non-weight focused approaches.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Effective strategies in ending weight stigma in healthcare.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Review
- Patients' acceptance of obesity as a chronic disease: a qualitative study in Lebanon.BMJ open · 2022Article
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Two Self-Administered Educational Strategies for Patients With Knee Osteoarthritis.ACR open rheumatology · 2021Article
- Influence of Body Mass Index and Gender on Stigmatization of Obesity.Obesity surgery · 2020Article
- Improving obesity management training in family medicine: multi-methods evaluation of the 5AsT-MD pilot course.BMC medical education · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundObesity is a rising social and economic burden. Patients with obesity often suffer from stigmatization and discrimination. Underrecognition of obesity as a disease could be a contributing factor. The present study aimed to compare attitudes towards obesity with other chronic diseases and to evaluate the recognition of need of professional treatment.
methodsNine hundred and forty-nine participants (subgroups: general population, patients with obesity, nurses in training, nurses, medical students, physicians) were randomized to video teaching on obesity and control. Questionnaires on the burden and influence of obesity on daily life compared to other chronic diseases and the fat phobia scale (FPS) were answered.
resultsBurden of obesity was rated low (4.2 ± 1.3; rank 9 of 11) compared to other diseases. Bowel cancer (5.5 ± 0.9) had the highest and caries the lowest (2.7 ± 1.4) estimated impact. Females (p = 0.011) and older people (p < 0.001) rated burden of obesity high whereas general population (p < 0.001) and control (p < 0.001) rated it low. Females (p = 0.001) and people with higher BMI (p = 0.004) rated the influence of obesity on daily life high; the general population (p < 0.001; reference physicians) and the control group (p < 0.001) rated it low. FPS was lowest in patients with obesity (3.2 ± 0.7) and highest in the general population (3.6 ± 0.4) and medical students (3.6 ± 0.5; p < 0.001; compared to physicians).
conclusionsObesity is underestimated as a disease compared to other chronic diseases and attitudes towards obesity are rather negative in comparison. Video teaching showed positive effects so a focus in medical education and public campaigns should aim to improve prevention and treatment of obesity.
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