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Changing attitudes towards obesity - results from a survey experiment.

BMC public health - 2 May 2017

Luck-Sikorski C, Riedel-Heller S G, Phelan J C

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BACKGROUND: This experimental study in a population-based sample aimed to compare attitudes towards obesity following three different causal explanations for obesity (individual behavior, environmental factors, genetic factors). METHODS: The data were derived from an online representative sample. A random subsample of n = 407 participants was included. Two independent variables were investigated: cause of obesity...

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PMID: 28464915
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-4275-y
PMCID: PMC5414181

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