Publications by authors named "Gavuji M"
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- Weight stigma in healthcare can harm patients, and a new program called BAM-Health aims to reduce this stigma among future health professionals.
- The study involved 67 students who either participated in BAM-Health or received an informational brochure, with their attitudes monitored before, after, and weeks later.
- Results showed that BAM-Health helped reduce concerns about body image and stigma more effectively than the brochure, improving participants' views on weight issues.
The Body Advocacy Movement (BAM) is a novel, cognitive-dissonance-based intervention designed to target fatphobia and anti-fat bias as mechanisms to drive reductions in eating disorder (ED) risk. Previous dissonance-based programs (i.e.
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