The Effect of an Education Module to Reduce Weight Bias among Medical Centers Employees: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Weight bias, stigma, and discrimination are common among healthcare professionals. We aimed to evaluate whether an online education module affects weight bias and knowledge about obesity in a private medical center setting.

Methods

An open-label randomized controlled trial was conducted among all employees of a chain of private medical centers in Israel (n = 3,290). Employees who confirmed their consent to participate in the study were randomized into intervention or control (i.e., "no intervention") arms. The study intervention was an online 15-min educational module that included obesity, weight bias, stigma, and discrimination information. Questionnaires on Anti-Fat Attitudes (AFA), fat-phobia scale (F-scale), and beliefs about the causes of obesity were answ

SUBMITTER: Sherf-Dagan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210013 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature