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ArticlePatient education and counseling2016

Patient-health care professional gender or race/ethnicity concordance and its association with weight-related advice in the United States.

Hsing-Yu Yang, Hsin-Jen Chen, Jill A Marsteller, Lan Liang, Leiyu Shi, Youfa Wang

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Article in Patient education and counseling, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Hsing-Yu YangDepartment of Nursing, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan; Johns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Hsin-Jen ChenJohns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Institute of Public Health and Department of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Jill A MarstellerDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Lan LiangCenter for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD, USA.
Leiyu ShiDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Youfa WangJohns Hopkins Global Center on Childhood Obesity, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health, School of Public Health and Health Professions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. Electronic address: youfawan@buffalo.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USAgency for Healthcare Research and Quality · US

Funding

Understanding Disparities in Obesity and its Comorbidities in the USR01DK081335 · NIDDK · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI WANG, YOUFA · 2009 to 2010
$1.2M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK081335NIDDK NIH HHS R01DK081335-02NIDDK NIH HHS R01DK81335-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveExamine association between adult patients' and health care providers' (HCPs) gender or race/ethnicity concordance and patients' reported receiving weight-related advice from HCP's in USA.

methodsUsing Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2004-2007 data, studied prevalence of weight-related advice (on exercise and diet) given to patients and its association with patients/HCPs concordance in gender (n=9,686) and race/ethnicity (n=8,825).

resultsOverall, 46% of patients received HCP advice on diet and 49% on exercise. Overweight females seeing female HCPs were more likely to receive exercise advice than those seeing male HCPs (OR=1.44 [95% CI: 1.10-1.89]). Race/ethnicity concordance was associated with lower odds of advice-receiving in certain populations (OR=0.80 [0.67-0.97] for exercise and OR=0.42 [0.19-0.91] for diet among white patients, OR=0.47 [0.23-0.98] for exercise among Hispanic overweight patients).

conclusionsPatient/HCP gender or race/ethnicity concordance was not positively associated with HCPs providing weight-related advice. Patients with female HCPs or with racial/ethnic discordant HCPs (especially black or Asian HCPs) were more likely to receive advice. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Health care providers need be empowered, particularly white and male HCPs, to improve delivery of weight-related advice. It may reflect better of receiving weight-related advice based on patients' recall.

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CounselingAdultBlack or African AmericanBlack PeopleBody Mass IndexCross-Sectional StudiesDelivery of Health CareFemaleHealth Care SurveysHealth PersonnelHispanic or LatinoHumansMaleMiddle AgedObesityPatient Education as TopicConcordanceHealth care professionalHealth disparityObesityOverweight

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PMCPMC6159929
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