A study, Journal of preventive medicine published in the June 2011 the American examines the association between patient physician of gender concordance and weight related advice in overweight individuals. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University found that overweight male patients see male doctors see higher rates of weight-related advice than obese women had received female doctor.
The study, Octavia Pickett Blakely, MD, MHS, hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, commented observed that "perhaps social standards link physical fitness leads male doctors to masculinity, as more receptive for weight-related advice to see obese men and to open is sex matched relations to dialogue on weight in the male." The results of this study should raise clinician awareness of such as the personal attributes influenced by doctors and patients obesity care can be. "Future studies should objectively measure weight in connection with communication (such as direct observation, audio cassettes) in gender consistent and gender divided patient physician encounters and explore the potential role of medical practices explicit and implicit attitudes about obesity and sex, in weight-related advice for obese patients."
The study found that male patients have a higher chance of get 60% diet/nutrition advice and a 76% higher chance of exercise advice of male physicians compared to female patients, the care of female doctors had. Female patients/woman doctor and wife/husband couples both types there were no significant differences in any form of advice in connection with weight.
The finding that all the patients had similar benefits of receiving weight related advice, if a female patient or female doctor part of the pair was part of the perception will, that women be more dissatisfied with their weight. Female doctors can weight with the obese patients to avoid discussions and discussions can avoid weight male doctors with obese female patients.
Data from the 2005-2007 National ambulatory medical care survey, researchers analyzed clinical data from 5,667 obese patients to determine association between patient doctor concordance and three types of advice: diet/nutrition (30%), exercise (23%) and weight reduction (20%) Advice.
Although one-third of us adults are overweight, get less than 30% of these people of weight-related advice despite the fact, that such advice is modest weight, associated with, which in turn linked to lower blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol.
The article is "patient physician of gender concordance and weight-related advice to obese patients" by Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, Sara N. Bleich, Octavia Pickett Blakely, MD, PhD, MHS (DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.02.020). It seems of Elsevier-published volume 40, issue 6 (June 2011) in the American Journal of preventive medicine.
source:medicalnewstoday
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