Jennifer S Laurent, Connie L Tompkins, Leigh-Anne Cioffredi, Emelia Wollenburg, Denise Smith, Elisabeth Fontaine
Are we underestimating overweight and obesity prevalence in children?
Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)
united kingdom uk pharmacy curricula previously shown hetero cisnormative possible reason may educators hold binary beliefs attitudes toward sexuality gender norms manifest teaching practice discourse purpose study investigate attitudes beliefs crosssectional survey using 16item heteronormative attitudes beliefs scale habs distributed educators uk universities teaching undergraduate master pharmacy degree programs 123 surveys returned total habs scores subscales measuring normative beliefs nb essential sex gender esg calculated nonparametric statistics comparing scores based demographic contextual characteristics sample mean total habs score 4006 nb 1646 esg 2360 indicating moderatelow normative beliefs attitudes two demographic categories reached statistical significance gender p 049 total habs score sexuality p 001 total habs score p 008nb subscore p 001 esg subscore p 05 indicating female queer identifying educators significantly lower heteronormative attitudes beliefs findings indicate uk pharmacy educators hold normative values beliefs curricula influenced normative structures within higher education