BACKGROUND Physicians are encouraged to counsel obese patients to lose weight, but studies measuring the quality of physicians' counseling are rare. We sought to describe the quality of physicians' obesity counseling and to determine associations between the quality of counseling and obese patients' motivation and intentions to lose weight, key predictors of behavior change. METHODS We conduc...

OBJECTIVES Physicians cite numerous barriers to incorporating injury prevention counseling into routine care. Health behavior models suggest that beliefs about barriers are associated with physician characteristics. This study explores associations between physician characteristics and physician perceptions of barriers. METHODS Self administered structured questionnaires were sent to all five...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a training program for physician-delivered nutrition counseling, alone and in combination with an office-support program, on dietary fat intake, weight, and blood low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels in patients with hyperlipidemia. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Forty-five primary care internists at the Fallon Community Health Plan, a central Massac...

BACKGROUND The more patients know about their medications the higher their compliance with drug therapy, reflecting an effective communication between health professionals and their patients. Numerous studies on this subject have been published, but none has been conducted in Israel. OBJECTIVES To evaluate patients' perceptions of drug counseling by health professionals--the prescribing physi...

introduction: although fasting has many benefits for health, it can be dangerous for patients. so it is necessary that physicians have adequate information about clinical aspects of fasting and they should advice patients. therefore in this study we analyses the condition of physicians counseling about fasting from the perspective of patients. methods:in this descriptive analytical cross-sectio...

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are distinguished and discussed in the context of the counselor's role in helping terminal clients. An aging population coupled with the proposed legislation in many states to legalize physicianassisted suicide could mean these issues will become more paramount to the counseling profession. Potential ethical dilemmas are discussed using the biopsychosoc...

This study examined physician attitudes and practices pertaining to patient counseling about smoking in Belgrade, Serbia. Data were collected using a cross-sectional survey of 86 physicians at multiple health care facilities. Approximately 74% of physicians agreed that they should routinely ask patients about their smoking habits and 79% agreed that physicians should routinely advise their smok...

OBJECTIVE Physicians can play an important role in reducing adolescent smoking by counseling their adolescent patients. The appropriate delivery of smoking prevention and cessation messages depends on adequate screening of adolescents, identification of smokers, and adolescents' willingness to disclose their smoking. The present study assessed adolescent reports of physician screening and couns...

An observational study of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) BMI coding distributions was conducted to ascertain the trends in overweight and obesity prevalence among KPNC members aged 2-19 between the periods of 2003-2005 and 2009-2010. A decrease in the prevalence of overweight (-11.1% change) and obesity (-3.6% change) and an increase in the prevalence of healthy weight (+2.7% ...