Comparison of Male and Female Nurses' Attitudes toward Obesity
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 86 (3_suppl) , 1442
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1998.86.3c.1442
Abstract
The Attitudes Toward Obesity Scale was administered to 23 male and 45 female caregivers and 55 patients. There were no sex differences in reported negative feelings of caregivers, but the obese patients reported significantly more negative attitudes of caregivers than did the nonobese patients.Keywords
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