Medical Students' Attitudes towards Overweight and Obesity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Pantenburg, Birte ^a   Sikorski, Claudia ^a   Luppa, Melanie ^a   Schomerus, Georg ^b   König, Hans Helmut ^c   Werner, Perla ^d   Riedel Heller, Steffi G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBESITY; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868360896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048113     Document Type: Article

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