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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Apr 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ambul Pediatr. 2007;7(1):38–44. doi: 10.1016/j.ambp.2006.09.008

Table 1.

Focus Group Guide Questions

Key Question Sample Probe
How do you usually identify or diagnose overweight children and adolescents in your practice? Do you use the BMI growth charts?
What do you think about using Body Mass Index (BMI) to identify overweight children and adolescents? To what extent has your practice started using BMI to identify overweight children and adolescents?
What makes using BMI growth charts easy or difficult? What are some of the barriers to implementing the BMI growth charts?
The AAP has published recommendations about overweight and obesity, which include the recommendation to “calculate and plot BMI once a year in all children and adolescents”. What do you think about this recommendation? Has this recommendation has changed your clinical practice?