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Previously submitted to: Interactive Journal of Medical Research (no longer under consideration since Mar 17, 2025)

Date Submitted: Aug 2, 2024

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Implicit and explicit weight bias among healthcare professionals

  • Jane W Liang; 
  • Christie Buonpane; 
  • Shengxuan Wang; 
  • Arghavan Salles

ABSTRACT

Data from over 1 million online survey responses collected by the Project Implicit Weight IAT (Implicit Association Test) suggest that implicit and explicit bias persist among both healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers, and that healthcare workers may actually express more explicit bias than others.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Liang JW, Buonpane C, Wang S, Salles A

Implicit and explicit weight bias among healthcare professionals

JMIR Preprints. 02/08/2024:65040

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.65040

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/65040

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