Medical students' attitudes towards overweight and obesity.

  • Birte Pantenburg
  • Claudia Sikorski
  • Melanie Luppa
  • Georg Schomerus
  • Hans-Helmut König
  • Perla Werner
  • Steffi G Riedel-Heller

Abstract

Studies from the USA have identified medical students as a major source of stigmatizing attitudes towards overweight and obese individuals. As data from Europe is scarce, medical students' attitudes were investigated at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number11
ISSN1932-6203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 23144850