Unconscious bias in students of health professions - an experimental vignette study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Unconscious bias refers to automatic, implicit attitudes or stereotypes that influence our understanding, decisions, and actions without our conscious awareness. It is recognised as a significant problem in healthcare contributing to disparities in treatment. To date it remains unclear how unconscious bias towards patients develops among health professionals. One hypothesis is that such bias is acquired during education, either through teaching content or by observing other health professionals interacting with patients and adopting their behaviour. We investigated whether health care students show an unconscious bias and whether there are indications that it develops during their professional education.

Methods

We conducted a factorial survey experiment with bach

SUBMITTER: Meidert U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12801684 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature