U.S. health professionals' views on obesity care, training, and self-efficacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Purpose

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.

Methods

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

SUBMITTER: Bleich SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4380783 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature