ArticlePreventive medicine2013
Do physician beliefs about causes of obesity translate into actionable issues on which physicians counsel their patients?
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- Effects of Education and Experience on Primary Care Providers' Perspectives of Obesity Treatments during a Pragmatic Trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2018Article
- Physician Characteristics Associated With Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Counseling Practices.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2018Article
- A Narrative Review of Physician Perspectives Regarding the Social and Environmental Determinants of Obesity.Current diabetes reports · 2018Review
- Practical Opportunities for Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Relationship to Intentions, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index.Annals of family medicine · 2016Article
- Guideline-concordant weight-loss programs in an urban area are uncommon and difficult to identify through the internet.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Article
- U.S. health professionals' views on obesity care, training, and self-efficacy.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Article
- Priorities and Preferences for Weight Management and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in Primary Care.Family & community healthArticle
- The Incomplete Medicalization of Obesity: Physician Office Visits, Diagnoses, and Treatments, 1996-2014.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the relationship between primary care physicians' (PCPs') beliefs about the causes of obesity with the frequency of nutritional counseling.
methodsWe analyzed a national cross-sectional internet-based survey of 500 US PCPs collected between February and March 2011.
resultsPCPs that identified overconsumption of food as a very important cause of obesity had significantly greater odds of counseling patients to reduce portion sizes (OR 3.40; 95%CI: 1.73-6.68) and to avoid high calorie ingredients when cooking (OR 2.16; 95%CI: 1.07-4.33). Physicians who believed that restaurant/fast food eating was a very important cause of obesity had significantly greater odds of counseling patients to avoid high calorie menu items outside the home (OR 1.93; 95%CI: 1.20-3.11). Physicians who reported that sugar-sweetened beverages were a very important cause of obesity had significantly greater odds of counseling their obese patients to reduce consumption (OR 5.99; 95%CI: 3.53-10.17).
conclusionsPCP beliefs about the diet-related causes of obesity may translate into actionable nutritional counseling topics for physicians to use with their patients.
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