Musculoskeletal surgeons have implicit bias towards the biomedical paradigm of human illness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evidence is mounting that the biopsychosocial paradigm is more accurate and useful than the biomedical paradigm of care. Habits of thought can hinder the implementation of this knowledge into daily care strategies. To understand and lessen these potential barriers, we asked: 1) What is the relative implicit and explicit attitudes of musculoskeletal surgeons towards the biomedical or biopsychosocial paradigms of medicine? 2) What surgeon factors are associated with these attitudes?

Methods

An online survey-based experiment was distributed to members of the Science of Variation Group (SOVG) with a total of 163 respondents. Implicit bias towards the biomedical or biopsychosocial paradigms was measured using an Implicit Association Test (IAT) designed by our team usin

SUBMITTER: Ramtin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500957 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature