Principal Investigator: Sally Stewart, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Health and Exercise Sciences/Nursing
Co-investigators: Dr. Maya Libben, Associate Professor, Psychology; Jamie Piercy, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychology
Project description
The EMPHASize Project; developing, implementing and evaluating online curriculum modules for health professions’ programs to fill a knowledge gap in psychological and physiological implications of weight bias/stigma and clinical aspects of eating disorders. The project is novel in its methodologies and impact for teaching and learning. Weight bias/stigma is now more recognized as a barrier to accessing timely and appropriate health care, especially with eating disorders. There is limited/no content on these issues in most health related programs. The plan is to see if these new online educational modules are an effective way to include this content into health programs and to evaluate the perceptions of health program students/ professionals’ learning of discipline specific knowledge. Modules can be disseminated/adopted by institutions.
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Research questions
- Are the online curriculum modules an effective means to include this content into health programs?
- What are the perceptions of the discipline specific knowledge gain and confidence by the health program students?
- What are the professors’ perceptions of the logistics of adding these modules into an already heavy curriculum and their effectiveness?
- What content related to weight bias/stigma and clinical aspects of eating disorders should be included in the curriculum modules?
- What are effective learning strategies/techniques to incorporate into the modules?