A qualitative exploration of obesity bias and stigma in Irish healthcare; the patients’ voice

Grainne O’Donoghue; Caitriona Cunningham; Melvina King; Chantel O’Keefe; Andrew Rofaeil; Sinead McMahon

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260075

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A qualitative exploration of obesity bias and stigma in Irish healthcare; the patients’ voice

Grainne O’Donoghue ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: grainne.odonoghue@ucd.ie

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7636-9312

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Caitriona Cunningham,

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8916-9499

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Melvina King,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Chantel O’Keefe,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Andrew Rofaeil,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Sinead McMahon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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A qualitative exploration of obesity bias and stigma in Irish healthcare; the patients’ voice

Grainne O’Donoghue,
Caitriona Cunningham,
Melvina King,
Chantel O’Keefe,
Andrew Rofaeil,
Sinead McMahon

Published: November 29, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260075

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