Perceived Barriers to Weight Management in Primary Care––Perspectives of Patients and Providers

In the article “Perceived Barriers to Weight Management in Primary Care-Perspectives of Patients and Providers” [J Gen Intern Med 2007: 22: 518–522 DOI: DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0125-4], the authors report that the row labels for “provider level” in Table 1 were inadvertently deleted. We reprint it here in its entirety:

Table 1.

Characteristics of survey respondents, primary care clinic population, and VA providers

	Survey respondents, N = 435	Percent	Primary care clinic population, N = 12,290	Percent	VA providers, N = 48	Percent
Gender
Male	424	97.5			28	58.3
Female	11	2.5			19	39.6
Age
<35	25	5.8	561	5	26	54
36–45	25	5.8	757	6	7	14.6
46–55	82	19.0	2,082	17	7	15
56–65	129	29.9	3,496	28	4	8
>65	179	39.5	5,394	44	2	4
Race
White	213	49.3	2,505	20	24	50
African-American	149	34.5	2,345	19	0	0
Hispanic	37	8.6	331	3	2	4
Other	33	7.6	881	7	20	42
Not reported			6,137	50	2	4
Obesity-related comorbidity
Arthritis	143	33.5	986	8
Diabetes	118	27.7	2,957	24
Heart disease	104	24.4	3,309	27
High blood pressure	285	66.7	6,998	57
High cholesterol	211	49.8	6,982	57
Sleep apnea	69	6.2	1,734	14
Education				Provider level
<High school graduate	32	7.4		Intern MD/DO	8	16.7
High school graduate	403	92.7		Resident MD/DO	13	27.1
Trade school	34	7.8		Attending MD/DO	17	35.4
College graduate	113	26.0		Nurse practitioner	8	16.7
Postgraduate degree	42	9.7		Physician assistant	2	4.2