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Reducing anti-fat prejudice in preservice health students: a randomized trial.

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Nov 2010

O'Brien Kerry S, Puhl Rebecca M, Latner Janet D, Mir Azeem S, Hunter John A

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Anti-fat sentiment is increasing, is prevalent in health professionals, and has health and social consequences. There is no evidence for effective obesity prejudice reduction techniques in health professionals. The present experiment sought to reduce implicit and explicit anti-fat prejudice in preservice health students. Health promotion/public health bachelor degree program students (n = 159) were randomized to...

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PMID: 20395952
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2010.79

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