Weight Bias in Pediatric Inpatient Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Weight bias can influence medical care but has not been studied in the pediatric inpatient setting. We will quantify implicit and explicit weight bias of pediatric inpatient providers and qualitatively explore providers' attitudes toward children with obesity and patient/family perceptions of weight bias in the hospital.

Methods

We performed a mixed-methods study including semistructured key informant interviews and validated tests for implicit (Implicit Association Test) and explicit (Crandall's Anti-Fat Attitudes Questionnaire) bias with pediatric hospitalists, residents, and acute care nurses. We performed semistructured key informant interviews with pediatric inpatients aged 7 to 17 years and the patient's parent(s) or guardian(s). Interviews were coded using a

SUBMITTER: Halvorson EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703967 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep - Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature