Table 4.

The relationship between the confidence in successful changing of unhealthy lifestyle habits and the need for family physicians’ advice in Slovenian primary health patients*

Items	Would you like to receive advice from your family physician to to help you: (mean ± standard deviation):
	improve eating habits			increase physical activity			reach normal weight
	yes	no	P	yes	no	P	yes	no	P
How confident are you that you can:
improve eating habits	2.7 ± 0.8	2.3 ± 0.9	0.005	2.7 ± 0.9	2.3 ± 0.9	0.012	2.8 ± 0.9	2.4 ± 0.9	0.050
increase physical activity	2.8 ± 0.8	2.4 ± 0.9	0.009	2.8 ± 0.8	2.4 ± 0.8	0.003	2.9 ± 0.8	2.4 ± 0.8	0.001
reach normal weight	2.8 ± 0.8	2.3 ± 0.8	0.002	2.7 ± 0.9	1.9 ± 0.8	0.004	2.6 ± 0.8	2.4 ± 0.8	0.001

*Scores on a scale from 1 to 4 (from 1 - no confident to 4 - very confident or 1 - not applicable to 4 - yes to advice from family physicians. Statistics: Independent t test.