Table 3.

Prevalence and odd ratios of making all 6 healthy behavior¹ recommendations, among respondents to the DocStyles 2012 survey, by primary care provider characteristics

PCP characteristic	Prevalence, %	p value	OR (95% CI)3	p value
Age, y
<45	53.6	0.0926	1.00
≥45	58.3		1.23 (0.97–1.56)	0.084
Gender
Male	56.1	0.999	1.12 (0.86–1.46)	0.398
Female	56.1		1.00
Race/ethnicity
Non-Hispanic white	55.3	0.590	0.85 (0.48–1.52)	0.583
Non-Hispanic black	65.1		1.64 (0.70–3.83)	0.257
Non-Hispanic other	57.6		1.12 (0.60–2.08)	0.724
Hispanics	56.6		1.00
Specialty
Family physician	59.0	0.054	0.99 (0.70–1.39)	0.935
Internist	51.7		0.70 (0.49–1.02)	0.060
Nurse practitioner	57.9		1.00
Body mass index, kg/m 2
Normal (<25.0)	54.8	0.664
Overweight (25–29.9)	57.2
Obese (≥30.0)	57.6
≥ 5 cups fruits or vegetables, days/week
0	43.7	0.006	1.00
1–4	55.8		1.59 (1.06–2.38)	0.024
5–7	59.5		1.68 (1.11–2.56)	0.015
Smoking, days/week
0	56.6	0.077	1.68 (0.97–2.92)	0.064
≥1	46.5		1.00
≥ 30 minutes physical activity, days/week
0	48.6	<0.001	1.00
1–4	53.4		1.13 (0.74–1.73)	0.571
5–7	64.9		1.68 (1.05–2.67)	0.030
Years in practice medicine
<5	61.2	0.590
5–10	55.6
11–20	57.5
>20	53.8
Main practice setting
Individual practice	59.6	0.341
Group practice	55.9
Hospital or clinic	51.3
Privileges at teaching hospital
Yes	55.8	0.847
No	56.3
Financial situation of majority of patients2
Poor to lower middle class	55.1	0.288
Middle class	53.9
Upper middle class to affluent	58.7

Abbreviations: PCP, primary care provider; OR, odds ratio; PCP, primary care provider.

¹Eating a healthy diet, reducing salt intake, maintaining healthy weight, limiting alcohol use, being physically active, smoking cessation.

²By PCP report.

³Variables did not included in the model (e.g., body mass index, years in practice medicine, main practice setting, privileges at teaching hospital, financial situation of majority of patients) due to their p-value > 0.2 in univariate analysis.