313907

WEIGHT BIAS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ALEXANDRIA FACULTY OF MEDICINE

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Introduction:
Obesity is an advanced stage of overweight. According to “100 million health" survey, in Egypt (2019) which screened 49.7 million adult Egyptians (≥18 years old), 39.8% of adult Egyptians suffered from obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2).
Weight bias is the negative attitudes towards and beliefs about others because of their weight. Moreover, obesity stigma involves actions against people with obesity that cause marginalization and leads to inequities in health care services. Obesity bias among health care providers can also affect the quality of care for patients with obesity and compromise the patients' compliance to treatment leading to poor health outcomes and increasing risk of mortality.
A prerequisite to improve knowledge and attitude is to assess it first. Medical students are future doctors whose knowledge and attitude towards patients affect the health care they provide and the consequent outcome of the patient.

Aim of the Work:
The present study explores the problem of obesity bias through assessment of knowledge and attitude among medical students and evaluating the role of medical study in combating this problem through comparing between first and sixth year medical students as regards their knowledge and attitudes towards obese persons.

DOI

10.21608/alexpo.2023.229675.1672

Keywords

bias, Attitudes, Knowledge

Authors

First Name

Nadia

Last Name

Farghaly

MiddleName

Fouad

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria.

Email

nadia_farghali1@alexmed.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Sultan

MiddleName

Anwar

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria.

Email

eman.sultan@alexmed.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

saad Rashed

MiddleName

Mohammed

Affiliation

Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria.

Email

dr.emy.rashed84@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

5

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

42257

Issue Date

2023-09-01

Receive Date

2023-08-16

Publish Date

2023-09-01

Page Start

36

Page End

37

Online ISSN

2682-2636

Link

https://alexpos.journals.ekb.eg/article_313907.html

Detail API

https://alexpos.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=313907

Order

1

Type

Preliminary preprint short reports of original research

Type Code

1,426

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

ALEXMED ePosters

Publication Link

https://alexpos.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

WEIGHT BIAS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ALEXANDRIA FACULTY OF MEDICINE

Details

Type

Article

Created At

26 Dec 2024