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Table 2 Specialty, experience, and gender

From: How is physicians’ implicit prejudice against the obese and mentally ill moderated by specialty and experience?

 

All physicians

Psychiatrists

Mean (SD)

Internists

Mean (SD)

Effect size

(95% CI)

p

Less experienced Mean (SD)

More experienced Mean (SD)

Effect size (95% CI)

p

Mean (SD)

Effect size (95% CI)

p

Mental Illness IAT (D score)

0.09 (0.50)

  

 − 0.23 (0.42)

0.31 (0.44)

1.25 (0.87–1.63)

 < 0.001

0.14 (0.50)

0.06 (0.51)

 − 0.158 (− 0.506 to 0.19)

0.398

Weight IAT (D score)

0.53 (0.36)

  

0.50 (0.39)

0.54 (0.34)

0.11 (− 0.236 to 0.458)

0.674

0.56 (0.33)

0.50 (0.38)

 − 0.166 (− 0.514 to 0.181

0.392

Feeling Thermometer Mentally Ill (Score 0–12)*

3.96 (2.28)

0.409 (0.065–0.752)

 < 0.001

2.69 (1.85)

4.80 (2.16)

1.033 (0.813–0.109)

 < 0.001

4.58 (2.21)

3.55 (2.25)

 − 0.461 (− 0.813 to 0.109)

0.012

Feeling Thermometer Obese (Score 0–12)*

4.89 (2.27)

  

5.11 (2.69)

4.75 (1.95)

 − 0.158 (− 0.506 to 0.189)

0.374

4.85 (1.94)

4.92 (2.48)

0.031 (− 0.316 to 0.378)

0.876

Vignette overall (Total score 6–42)#

29.94 (3.34)

  

30.15 (3.17)

29.80 (3.47)

 − 0.104 (− 0.452 to 0.243)

0.556

29.08 (3.33)

30.51 (3.24)

0.437 (0.085- 0.788)

0.014

Vignette/Depressive patient

29.98 (3.58)

 − 0.021 (− 0.361 to 0.319)

0.914

30.86 (2.93)

29.44 (3.86)

 − 0.403 (− 0.754 to 0.053)

0.144

28.47 (2.93)

30.61 (3.66)

0.617 (0.041–1.194)

0.038

Vignette/Non-depressive patient

29.91 (3.18)

  

29.65 (3.28)

30.09 (3.13)

0.138 (− 0.23 to 0.485)

0.544

29.36 (3.51)

30.41 (2.78)

0.34 (− 0.01 to 0.689)

0.154

Vignette/Obese patient

29.32 (3.34)

0.39 (0.047–0.733)

0.058

29.15 (2.86)

29.43 (3.59)

0.084 (− 0.263 to 0.432)

0.734

28.97 (3.19)

29.62 (3.41)

0.196 (− 0.152 to 0.543)

0.418

Vignette/Non-obese patient

30.61 (3.28)

  

31.19 (3.18)

30.21 (3.33)

 − 0.3 (− 0.649 to 0.049)

0.244

29.24 (3.61)

31.28 (2.93)

0.65 (0.072–1.227)

0.018

  1. P values in bold are statistically significant