Obesity bias awareness decreases nursing students' bias toward patients with obesity.

PSYCHOLOGY of college students; OBESITY; IMPLICIT bias; BODY weight; ANALYSIS of variance; RESEARCH methodology; PREJUDICES; QUANTITATIVE research; NURSING education; UNDERGRADUATES; PRE-tests & post-tests; T-test (Statistics); UNIVERSITIES & colleges; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; NURSING students; STUDENT attitudes; ATTITUDES toward obesity; BODY mass index; DATA analysis software; EDUCATIONAL outcomes

Purpose: To determine if obesity bias scores among nursing students changed after education was delivered and to what degree body mass index (BMI) was associated with a personal experience of bias during a student's healthcare history. Methods: A quantitative, quasi-experimental design was used to analyze sociodemographic information and Implicit Association Test scores of junior, senior, and full-time accelerated coursework track nursing students. Results: Generally, obesity bias declined among the group. However, bias increased regarding increasing BMI. Conclusion: Obesity bias awareness and obesity education can decrease obesity bias among nursing students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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