Weight bias among health care professionals: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.)
ISSN: 1930-739X
Titre abrégé: Obesity (Silver Spring)
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101264860
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2021
11 2021
Historique:
revised:
22
06
2021
received:
09
03
2021
accepted:
10
07
2021
pubmed:
8
9
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
7
9
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Weight-biased attitudes and views held by health care professionals can have a negative impact on the patient-provider relationship and the provision of care, but studies have found mixed results about the extent and nature of bias, which warrants a review of the evidence. A systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis were conducted by including studies up to January 12, 2021. A total of 41 studies met inclusion criteria, with 17 studies providing sufficient data to be meta-analyzed. A moderate pooled effect (standardized mean difference = 0.66; 95% CI: 0.37-0.96) showed that health care professionals demonstrate implicit weight bias. Health care professionals also report explicit weight bias on the Fat Phobia Scale, Antifat Attitudes Scale, and Attitudes Towards Obese Persons Scale. Findings show that medical doctors, nurses, dietitians, psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, podiatrists, and exercise physiologists hold implicit and/or explicit weight-biased attitudes toward people with obesity. A total of 27 different outcomes were used to measure weight bias, and the overall quality of evidence was rated as very low. Future research needs to adopt more robust research methods to improve the assessment of weight bias and to inform future interventions to address weight bias among health care professionals.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Review
Systematic Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1802-1812Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Obesity Society.
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