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. 2008 Jan;6(Suppl 1):S33–S36. doi: 10.1370/afm.780

Table 1.

Patient Responses to Survey Questions Before and After Poster Intervention in the Clinic

Preintervention Group Postintervention Group
Question n Yes No. (%) No No. (%) n Yes No. (%) No No. (%) P Value*
1. Do you want to lose weight? 283 185 (65) 93 (33) 386 259 (67) 120 (31) .63
2. Did you discuss weight loss with your doctor today? 283 81 (29) 197 (70) 386 103 (27) 276 (71) .59
3. Did you find the information useful? 78 64 (82) 12 (15) 103 79 (77) 9 (9) .23
4. Did you see the weight loss poster today? NA NA NA 386 231 (60) 148 (38) NA

NA = not applicable.

Note: Within each group, Yes and No values do not total to n values because some patients declined to complete the questionnaire or selected the “not applicable” response.

*Assessed with the Mann-Whitney U test.