. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 12.

Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2014 May 1;96(1):43–49. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.03.014

Table 2.

The association of health behavior advice type (n = 418 discussions among ‘at risk’ patients) with patient and visit characteristics.

Patient characteristic	Teachable moment, n = 58	TM attempt, n = 106	Missed opportunity^b			p

			A	B	C
			n = 44	n = 73	n = 137
Age, mean ± SD	51 ± 10	53 ± 10	55 ± 10	50 ± 11	53 ± 10	0.05
Race, %
White	47	59	52	56	56	0.90
Black	47	37	43	38	37
Other	5	4	5	6	7
Hispanic, %	2	1	2	1	4	0.66
Male, %	43	33	32	30	34	0.60
Education^a, %
High school diploma or less	29	42	36	29	32	0.87
Some college	33	25	27	29	37
College degree or more	38	34	36	43	31
Any chronic condition, %	76	86	80	70	82	0.11
Self-reported health status^a, %
Excellent	7	7	0	7	10	0.74
Very good	41	36	16	41	25
Good	22	31	55	27	37
Fair	22	24	23	22	21
Poor	7	3	7	3	7
Visit type, %
Acute care	28	17	16	25	27	0.07
Chronic care	57	61	70	43	53
Well care	16	22	14	32	20

Linear-by-linear association p-value used to compare ordinal variables.

Missed opportunities: (A) link to health concern present but change talk absent; (B) change talk present but link to health concern absent; (C) link to health concern and change talk absent.