Making a difference in medical trainees’ attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 199, Issue , 2018, Pages 202-208

  Chapman, Mimi V ^a   Hall, William J ^a   Lee, Kent ^b   Colby, Robert ^c   Coyne Beasley, Tamera ^d   Day, Steve ^a   Eng, Eugenia ^e   Lightfoot, Alexandra F ^a,e   Merino, Yesenia ^e   Simán, Florence M ^f   Thomas, Tainayah ^e   Thatcher, Kari ^e   Payne, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c Ohio Humanities Council   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f El Pueblo Community Development Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit bias; Latinos; Medical residents; Medical students; Visual interventions

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; LATINO PEOPLE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RACIAL DISPARITY; TRAINING; VISION;

CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PILOT STUDY; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; RESIDENT; RESPONSIBILITY; SAFETY; ADULT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; RACISM; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 85019949723     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.05.013     Document Type: Article

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