Trial reportObesity research & clinical practice
The impact of physician weight discussion on weight loss in US adults.
Trial report in Obesity research & clinical practice. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
46 citing papers in PubMed.
- A cluster-randomized controlled trial of automated internet weight-loss programs in primary care: Role of automated provider feedback.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- The Role of Doctor Visits, Body Image Discrepancy, and Perceived Health in Predicting Medical Weight Problem Diagnosis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Discussing Weight with Patients in Primary Care in Australia: A Mixed Methods Experimental Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2025Article
- Preventing diabetes: What overweight and obese adults with prediabetes in the United States report about their providers' communication and attempted weight loss.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- An obesity medicine curriculum increases the obesity care self-efficacy of internal medicine residents in the primary care setting.Clinical obesity · 2024Article
- Obesity and cardiovascular health.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2024Review
- Patients' perception of lifestyle advice as a mechanism between health shocks and health behaviours: Evidence from a longitudinal study in China.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Article
- Does Healthcare Provider Counseling for Weight Management Behaviors among Hispanic Adults Who Are Overweight/Obese Vary by Acculturation Level?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Implementation of non-pharmacological interventions for the treatment of hypertension in primary care: a narrative review of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, barriers, and facilitators.BMC primary care · 2022Review
- Exploring a Need for a Cardiometabolic Disease Staging System as a Computerized Clinical Decision Support Tool: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Association between Nutrition Behavior and Colorectal Cancer Diet Recommendation.Journal of cancer prevention · 2022Article
- Food environments and obesity: A geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Self-Reported Patient Compliance With Physician Advised Lifestyle Behavior Changes Among Adults With Musculoskeletal Conditions.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Review
- Pilot study of a brief provider and EMR-based intervention for overweight teens with asthma.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Culinary Medicine for Family Medicine Residents.Medical science educator · 2021Article
- Article
- General Public's Information-Seeking Patterns of Topics Related to Obesity: Google Trends Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2020Article
- Investigating the Relationship Between Fatherhood and Provider Weight-Related Practices and Counseling in Clinical Settings.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
problemThe increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States and worldwide is at epidemic levels. Physicians may play a vital role in addressing this epidemic. We aimed to examine the association of a physician's discussion of patients’ weight status with self-reported weight loss. We hypothesized that physician discussion of patients’ being overweight is associated with increased weight loss in patients with overweight and obesity.
methodsData analysis of participants (n = 5054) in the National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) in 2005-2008. The main outcome was rates of self-reported weight loss and the association with physicians’ discussion of their patients’ weight status.
resultsOverweight and obese participants were significantly more likely to report a 5% weight loss in the past year if their doctor had told them they were overweight (adjusted OR (AOR) 1.88; 95% CI 1.45-2.44; AOR 1.79; 95% CI 1.30-2.46, respectively).
conclusionsPhysicians’ direct discussion of their patients’ weight status is associated with clinically significant patient weight loss and may be a targetable intervention. Further studies are needed to determine if increasing physician discussion of patients’ weight status leads to significant weight loss.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.