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Weight management in general practice: what do patients want?

dc.contributor.author Tan, Daisy en_US
dc.contributor.author Zwar, N en_US
dc.contributor.author Dennis, Sarah en_US
dc.contributor.author Vagholkar, Sanjyot en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:59:19Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:59:19Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.description.abstract Objective: To explore patients’ views of the role of general practitioners in weight management. Design: Waiting-room questionnaire survey, including measurement of height, weight and waist circumference, May-August 2005. Participants and setting: 227 patients from five general practices located in metropolitan and rural New South Wales. Main outcome measures: Patients’ views on: the role of GPs in weight management; the usefulness of weight-loss strategies; and the likelihood of following the GP’s advice about weight loss. Results: Most patients (78%) felt that GPs had a role in weight management, but only 46% thought that GPs would be able to spend enough time to provide effective weight loss advice. Over 80% of patients perceived advice on healthy eating and physical activity to be useful or very useful, and were likely to follow weight-loss recommendations; 78% were in favour of regular review. Patients indicated they would be less likely to see a dietitian or to attend information sessions, and unlikely to take weight-loss medication. Views of overweight and obese patients were generally similar to those of normal weight patients, but there were significant differences in perceptions of the usefulness of information on weight and weight-related medical conditions, as well as willingness to change lifestyle, possibly reflecting resistance to change among obese or overweight patients.Conclusion: These findings have implications for the design of primary care interventions for managing obesity. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/38854
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Weight management in general practice: what do patients want? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.relation.faculty Medicine & Health
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 2 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Medical Journal of Australia en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 73-75 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 185 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Tan, Daisy, Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Zwar, N, Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Dennis, Sarah, Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Vagholkar, Sanjyot, Public Health & Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Population Health *
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