Table 4.

Adjusted ^a associations of stigmatizing attitudes of health care professionals and sub-groups towards overweight

	Full sample			Physicians			Nurses
	coefficient	95% CI	p	coefficient	95% CI	p	coefficient	95% CI	p
Sociodemographics
Female sex	−0.0489	−0.1501 to 0.0526	0.345	0.0001	−0.1207 to 0.1210	0.998	−0.170	−0.427 to 0.0875	0.194
Age	0.0139*	0.0032 to 0.0243	0.011	0.0067	−0.0098 to 0.0232	0.421	0.0278**	0.0080 to 0.4757	0.006
BMI	−0.0083	−0.0192 to 0. 0024	0.129	−0.0122	−0.0316 to 0.0071	0.215	−0.0101	−0.0252 to 0.0050	0.187
Work-related variables
Profession (ref = physician)				n/a			n/a
Nurses	−0.0874	−0.2157 to 0.0409	0.181
Therapists	0.0090	−0.1167 to 0.1344	0.889
Others	0.0037	−0.2123 to 0.2197	0.3973
Difficulty equipment access	0.0206	−0.0124 to 0.0536	0.220	0.1890	−0.0301 to 0.0681	0.446	−0.0074	−0.0650 to 0.0503	0.801
Difficulty in health care	−0.0610	−0.3128 to 0.1907	0.634	0.1070	−03739 to 0.5876	0.661	−0.0748	−0.4690 to 0.3193	0.708
(ref = more difficult)
Experience in years	−0.0132*	−0.0240 to 0.0250	0.016	−0.0095	−0.0270 to 0.0081	0.290	−0.0236*	−0.0430 to −0.0042	0.018
Attribution of causes
Environmental influence	−0.0229	−0.0737 to 0.0280	0.377	−0.0106	−0.0918 to 0.0705	0.796	0.0066	−0.0753 to 0.0885	0.874
Biomedical causes	−0.0686**	−0.1209 to −0.0163	0.010	0.0038	−0.0782 to 0.0858	0.927	−0.097*	−0.1852 to −0.0142	0.023
Balance of energy intake	0.0141	−0.0402 to 0.0684	0.610	−0.0132	−0.0840 to 0.0575	0.712	0.0413	−0.0554 to 0.1381	0.400
Personal responsibility	0.0870***	0.0461 to 0.1280	<0.001	0.0764*	0.0159 to 0.0137	0.014	0.0574	−0.133 to 0.1280	0.111
Other variables
Solution rather responsibility of society	−0.0070*	−0.0137 to −0.0003	0.039	−0.0752 †	−0.1611 to 0.0105	0.085	−0.0078	−0.0184 to 0.0028	0.147
Constant	4.7439***	4.1715 to 5.3163	<0.001	4.7153***	3.7177 to 5.7129	<0.001	4.8028***	3.9203 to 5.6853	<0.001
Adjusted r2	0.284			0.232			0.322
n	430			157			187

CI = Confidence interval; n/a = not applicable.

^†p < 0.10

^*p < 0.05

^**p < 0.01

^***p < 0.001.

^aAdjusted for FPS normal-weight vignette.