Background Pregnancy is widely recognised as a 'teachable moment'for healthy behaviour
change and the postnatal period has been identified as the opportune time to initiate this …

Background Supporting patients to live well by optimizing behavior is a core tenet of primary
health care. General practitioners and practice nurses experience barriers in providing …

We sought to understand the impact of primary care conversations about obesity on people's
everyday life health experience and practices. Using a dialogic narrative perspective, we …

Self‐management interventions (SMIs) can improve the life of patients living with obesity.
However, there is variability in the outcomes used to assess the effectiveness of SMIs and …

Primary care physicians (PCPs) are well suited to manage patients with non-alcoholic fatty
liver disease (NAFLD), but the limited, existing research suggests inadequate knowledge …

General practice is ideally suited to support patients with weight management. Hilda
Mulrooney outlines some of the barriers facing nurses working in general practice and ways …

Addressing issues of weight with people with type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming part
of the workload of primary care. This includes taking weight measurements during …

Objective The purpose of this study was to survey primary care professionals about what
they need to treat obesity effectively in West Virginia (WV), a rural state in the United States …

There remains widespread doubt among clinicians that mere lifestyle advice and counseling
provided in routine care can achieve improvements in health. We aimed to determine the …

Objective: This analysis explores the effects of relaying information about the genetic and
behavioral causes of obesity (vs. control) on physician trainees' verbal communication …