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U.S. Health Professionals’ Views on Obesity Care, Training, and Self-Efficacy
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Despite emphasis of recent guidelines on multidisciplinary teams for collaborative weight management, little is known about non-physician health professionals' perspectives on obesity, their weight management training, and self-efficacy for obesity care.To evaluate differences in health professionals' perspectives on (1) the causes of obesity; (2) training in weight management; and (3) self-efficacy for providing obesity care.Data were obtained from a cross-sectional Internet-based survey of 500 U.S. health professionals from nutrition, nursing, behavioral/mental health, exercise, and pharmacy (collected from January 20 through February 5, 2014). Inferences were derived using logistic regression adjusting for age and education (analyzed in 2014).Nearly all non-physician health professionals, regardless of specialty, cited individual-level factors, such as overconsumption of food (97%), as important causes of obesity. Nutrition professionals were significantly more likely to report high-quality training in weight management (78%) than the other professionals (nursing, 53%; behavioral/mental health, 32%; exercise, 50%; pharmacy, 47%; p0.05). Nutrition professionals were significantly more likely to report high confidence in helping obese patients achieve clinically significant weight loss (88%) than the other professionals (nursing, 61%; behavioral/mental health, 51%; exercise, 52%; pharmacy, 61%; p0.05), and more likely to perceive success in helping patients with obesity achieve clinically significant weight loss (nutrition, 81%; nursing, behavioral/mental health, exercise, and pharmacy, all50%; p0.05).Nursing, behavioral/mental health, exercise, and pharmacy professionals may need additional training in weight management and obesity care to effectively participate in collaborative weight management models.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Epidemiology
Attitude of Health Personnel
education
Specialty
MEDLINE
Pharmacy
Article
Professional Competence
Risk Factors
Weight management
Health care
Medicine
Humans
Obesity
Self-efficacy
Internet
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Mental health
Self Efficacy
United States
Cross-Sectional Studies
Family medicine
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a545e368e9a254ddaab426944e4f69b