Clinicians expect that talking to patients with obesity about potential/future weight loss will be a difficult conversation, especially if it is not the reason that a patient is seeking medical help. Despite this expectation, many governments ask clinicians to take every opportunity to talk to patients about weight to help manage increasing levels of obesity. Although this is recommended, little is known about what happens in consultations when clinicians opportunistically talk to patients about weight, and if the anticipated difficulties are reality. This paper examines displays of explicit patient resistance following opportunistic weight-loss conversations initiated by GPs. We analysed audio recordings and transcribed them for conversati...
ObjectiveGuidelines recommend that clinicians should offer patients with obesity referrals to weight...
National guidelines exhort GPs to give brief opportunistic interventions for weight loss which incor...
Background: GPs are encouraged to make brief interventions to support weight loss, but they report c...
Clinicians expect that talking to patients with obesity about potential/future weight loss will be a...
Obesity is a major worldwide public health problem. Clinicians are asked to communicate public healt...
Obesity is a major public health issue and primary care practitioners are well placed to opportunist...
Background Guidelines encourage GPs to make brief opportunistic interventions to support weight loss...
ObjectiveTo analyse weight-related communication prevalence and processes (content/context) between ...
Background: General practitioners are encouraged to make brief interventions to support weight loss,...
Background: Primary care practitioners (PCPs) have a vital role in patient weight management. This s...
Background. Primary care is ideally placed to play an effective role in patient weight management ho...
Background: Guidelines recommend general practitioners (GPs) take every opportunity to talk to peopl...
Guidelines and evidence suggest primary care clinicians should give opportunistic interventions to m...
Two-thirds of UK adults do not have an up-to-date weight record in primary care. Some studies sugges...
Addressing issues of weight with people with type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming part of the wo...
ObjectiveGuidelines recommend that clinicians should offer patients with obesity referrals to weight...
National guidelines exhort GPs to give brief opportunistic interventions for weight loss which incor...
Background: GPs are encouraged to make brief interventions to support weight loss, but they report c...
Clinicians expect that talking to patients with obesity about potential/future weight loss will be a...
Obesity is a major worldwide public health problem. Clinicians are asked to communicate public healt...
Obesity is a major public health issue and primary care practitioners are well placed to opportunist...
Background Guidelines encourage GPs to make brief opportunistic interventions to support weight loss...
ObjectiveTo analyse weight-related communication prevalence and processes (content/context) between ...
Background: General practitioners are encouraged to make brief interventions to support weight loss,...
Background: Primary care practitioners (PCPs) have a vital role in patient weight management. This s...
Background. Primary care is ideally placed to play an effective role in patient weight management ho...
Background: Guidelines recommend general practitioners (GPs) take every opportunity to talk to peopl...
Guidelines and evidence suggest primary care clinicians should give opportunistic interventions to m...
Two-thirds of UK adults do not have an up-to-date weight record in primary care. Some studies sugges...
Addressing issues of weight with people with type 2 diabetes is increasingly becoming part of the wo...
ObjectiveGuidelines recommend that clinicians should offer patients with obesity referrals to weight...
National guidelines exhort GPs to give brief opportunistic interventions for weight loss which incor...
Background: GPs are encouraged to make brief interventions to support weight loss, but they report c...