Table 2.

Top concerns for providing weight management, by Role

Characteristic	Clinician, N = 70	Other Medical Provider, N = 8	Staff/Other, N = 176
I/our providers don’t have time in their schedule	49 (70%)	4 (50%)	48 (27%)
We don’t have weight management workflows set up in our practice	38 (54%)	2 (25%)	73 (41%)
I/our providers don’t know how	30 (43%)	0 (0%)	15 (9%)
I/our providers don’t feel like patients will be able to successfully change and lose weight	27 (39%)	1 (12%)	19 (11%)
We don’t have time to set up a new program	21 (30%)	1 (12%)	17 (10%)
We won’t get paid/will lose money	14 (20%)	0 (0%)	7 (4%)
Our patients will not want their providers to bring up weight loss with them	10 (14%)	2 (25%)	33 (19%)
I/our providers are not interested in providing weight management	6 (9%)	0 (0%)	10 (6%)
None of the above are concerns	5 (7%)	2 (25%)	59 (34%)
Other	4 (6%)	0 (0%)	9 (5%)