The BRAVE Study: Reducing Weight Bias in Nursing Students
This study, called The BRAVE Study, is looking at ways to reduce weight bias (negative attitudes or beliefs about people with higher weight) in nursing students. It compares two approaches: the BRAVE intervention, which includes an educational presentation and two simulation encounters, and a Standard Obesity Lecture (SOL) also with two simulation encounters. The goal is to improve nursing students' attitudes and beliefs towards people with higher weight. You might be able to join if you are a nursing student between 18 and 35 years old, in your second or fourth year of a traditional or FLEX BSN undergraduate program. The study aims to measure changes in attitudes and self-efficacy (belief in one's ability to succeed) over three months. The current status of the study is unclear.
- Study design
- This is a randomized controlled trial, meaning participants will be assigned by chance to one of two groups. It plans to enroll 368 nursing students.
- What's involved
- Participants will receive either the BRAVE intervention or the Standard Obesity Lecture, and both groups will have two simulation encounters with standardized patients. The primary outcomes are measured from baseline to 3 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The primary outcomes are measured up to 3 months after baseline.
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Weight Bias Reducation Intervention With Nursing Students Using Simulation: The BRAVE Study
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Where it's being run
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What this trial measures
- Attitudes Towards Higher Weight Persons (ATOP-HW)Baseline to 3 Months
Estimated Mean Change Score.The ATOP-HW is a 20-item Likert rating scale that focuses on perceptions and attitudes about people living with obesity. Higher scores reflect more positive attitudes toward persons with obesity.
- Beliefs About Obese Persons Scale (BAOP)Baseline to 3 Months
The BAOP is an eight-item Likert rating scale that assesses beliefs about the causes of obesity. Each question asks individuals to indicate the extent of agreement or disagreement (+3 to -3) to a specific statement, such as "obesity is really caused by a lack of willpower." Higher scores indicate beliefs that obesity is not controllable.
- SE-12 (Self-Efficacy) ScaleBaseline to 3 Months
The SE-12 is a 12-item questionnaire assessing self-efficacy by clinicians in clinical communications.