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Social Dominance Orientation, Dispositional Empathy, and Need for Cognitive Closure Moderate the Impact of Empathy-Skills Training, but Not Patient Contact, on Medical Students' Negative Attitudes toward Higher-Weight Patients

Anti-fat bias in healthcare providers and medical students has serious implications for quality of care of higher-weight patients. Studies of interventions aimed at reducing anti-fat attitudes in medical students have generally been disappointing, with little enduring effect. It is possible that som...

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Autores principales: Meadows, Angela, Higgs, Suzanne, Burke, Sara E., Dovidio, John F., van Ryn, Michelle, Phelan, Sean M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28421020
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00504