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Common gender stereotypes can negatively affect patients in healthcare.
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This can lead to assumptions about their health conditions, their behavior, and treatment preferences based on their gender.
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So, for example, if we assume women are more emotional and less rational than men, this can lead to individuals over -diagnosing mental health conditions in women.
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And assuming men are less likely to seek help for mental health issues can delay treatment.
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In psychology, it's assumed everyone has some biases.
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So we're asked to consider our own biases.
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So one of my biases would be women are more emotional than men.
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So, as a result, i think that i would discuss emotional topics with women instead of men.
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Because i would assume that men wouldn't be interested because of the bias.
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What strategies could be used to counteract biases? so, some strategies would be self -awareness...