Development of Obesity Prejudice Scale for Students of Health Sciences: Gams 27- Obesity Prejudice Scale

Soyadı, Yazar Adı Yazar; Ok, Mehtap Akçıl; Kızıltan, Gül; Altun, Simay; Ercan, Aydan

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“…A minimum of 27 and maximum of 135 points were obtainable from the scale. When the cut‐off points of the scale were assessed, scores lower than 68.00 were categorised as unprejudiced, scores in the 68.01–84.99 range were categorised as inclined to prejudice and scores higher than 85 were categorised as prejudiced …”

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“…The scale was developed by Ercan et al 15 and its Cronbach coefficient was 0.85. According to the responses of 729 students to the items, the Cronbach coefficient was found to be 0.72 in this study.…”

Section: Gams-27 Obesity Prejudice Scalementioning

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“…The scale consisted of 27 items with a 5-point Likert-type scale. The negative items (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, and 26) were scored from 1 to 5 starting with the fully agree option, and the positive items (2,4,7,10,11,14,15,17,20,22,25, and 27) were scored from 5 to 1 starting with the fully agree option. A minimum of 27 and maximum of 135 points were obtainable from the scale.…”

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Prejudice against obesity in university students studying in health‐related departments

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“…Founded general mean score 82,422 reveal a tendency to prejudical attitudes. This score is close but higher than the mean (M = 76.394) which was founded by Ercan et al (2015). When it is thought that having scores which are equal to or greater than 85 indicates prejudical attitudes, it became obvious that this founded "moderate" tendency to prejudical attitudes is very strong.…”

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“…Higher scores mean higher prejudice. According to Ercan et al (2015) Obesity Prejudice Scale scores which are ≤ 68.00 indicate unpredjudiced attitudes. Scores between 68.01-84.99 reveal inclination to prejudical attitudes and scores ≥ 85 means having prejudical attitudes.…”

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The Stigmatisation of Obesity by University Students Who Will be the Future Counsellors, Educators, and Psychologists

Okumuşoğlu¹

2016

JPR

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To investigate the attitudes of prospective councellors, psychologists, and educators, Obesity Prejudice Scale was used. Participants are ninety university students, thirty from each mentioned department. Founded mean score 82,422 (SD = 1,091) is very close to 85 which indicates prejudical attitudes. Even for the group of participants who informed they have no prejudical bias toward people with obesity, total mean scores was not below 68 which means unstigmatising attitudes. Participants who attribute personal responsibility for obesity condition are more biased toward people with obesity than participants who does not. Mean scores above three (on five point likert) at item level accepted as indicators of the participants' biased attitudes. According to mentioned findings, people with obesity conceptualised as "unhealthy" people, who "doesn't like to move", "has restricted ability to move", "moves slowly", "quickly get tired", "vulnerable to ilnesses", "smelling sweat", "unattractive", "unhappy", "unesthetic", "lazy people", who doesn't have "self confidence" or "will power", "unfavoruable for sentimental relationships", "seem older than they really are". Stigmatising attitudes towards people with obesity held by authority figures at school settings dangerously depletes the potential for early detection and prevention for obesity and eating disorders. Therefore findings implies a need to plan educational intervention programs for prospective counsellors, educators and psychologists to shape more positive, more indiscriminative attitudes.

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Are patients with obesity “scapegoats”? The obesity prejudice levels of health care workers in Turkey

Parıldar¹,

Tuncer²,

Şahin

et al. 2021

Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras.

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OBJECTIVE: This study assessed obesity prejudice levels, attitudes, and perceptions of health care workers toward individuals with obesity and the relationship between health care workers' perceptions of own and society's weight bias, healthy lifestyle preferences, body mass index, and other factors with obesity prejudice levels.METHODS: This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted with 700 health care workers in Turkey via an online survey addressing characteristics, perceptions, and attitudes toward obesity including an obesity prejudice scale. Categorical variables were expressed as frequencies and percentages. The χ² test was applied to compare categorical variables. The distribution of the data was evaluated by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Normally distributed data were compared by an independent sample t-test, while the Mann-Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for comparing non-normally distributed data.RESULTS: Participants' mean age was 40.2±11.3 years and 67.9% were women. Notably, 57.9% worked at tertiary health care centers, 85.9% were physicians, and 64.8% were family physicians; 25% were prejudicial, while 58.1% tended to have prejudice toward individuals with obesity. Obesity prejudice scores were significantly higher among those who were in close contact with and who stated their preference for patients with obesity.CONCLUSIONS: Half of the participants tended to have prejudice, and one-fourth were prejudicial toward individuals with obesity.These results highlight the necessity of raising awareness of health care workers to reduce prejudicial attitudes that may negatively impact patients with obesity. Stigmatizing experiences might be detrimental, reducing the quality of life with long-term consequences for emotional and physical health.

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Development of Obesity Prejudice Scale for Students of Health Sciences: Gams 27- Obesity Prejudice Scale

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Prejudice against obesity in university students studying in health‐related departments

Prejudice against obesity in university students studying in health‐related departments

The Stigmatisation of Obesity by University Students Who Will be the Future Counsellors, Educators, and Psychologists

Are patients with obesity “scapegoats”? The obesity prejudice levels of health care workers in Turkey

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