Themes to reflect on as a health professional

Qualitative research involving interviews with people who had attended physiotherapy highlights the following themes that are important to reflect upon in relation to weight stigma:^{3, 15}

These themes are applicable to health professionals in general and will be further explained in the coming pages:

1: The prominence of the body during consultations
2: The ‘fit’ health professional
3: Guilt, shame, self-consciousness, sense of failure
4: Need to understand weight management complexity
5: Specialised skills are required to support weight loss efforts