Table 1.

Participant Characteristics (N=75)

Characteristic
Personal characteristics
Age, mean years (range)	48 (30, 70)
Female, %	55
Race/ethnicity, %
White	69
American Indian or Alaska Native	16
Hispanic/Latino	8
Other	7
Professional characteristics
Type of provider (N=75), %
Physician	67
Nurse practitioner	29
Physician assistant	4
Years in clinical practice, mean years (range)	14 (<1, 40)
Years in current position, mean years (range)	7 (<1, 28)
Clinical characteristics
Patients seen per week, mean number (range)	74 (20, 150)
Continuing education with content on working with ethnically diverse populations in past 12 months, %	61
Continuing education with content on child and adolescent obesity in past 12 months, %	43
Child and adolescent patients, %
Less than 20	38
20–40	35
40–50	10
>50	17
Child/adolescent patients overweight or obese, %
0–29	20
30–59	55
60–100	25
Self-rated clinical practice behavior
Often or very often give patients a choice in decision when there is a variety of treatment options, %	88
Often or very often make an effort to give patients control over their treatment, %	91
Often or very often ask patients to take responsibility for their treatment,a %	91
Agree that I am able to communicate effectively with my patients, %	93
Agree that it is easy for me to gain patients' trust, %	92
Agree that I am able to establish patients as partners in their treatment	93
Self-rated clinical practice in weight management
Answered moderately, quite, or extremely competent in treating overweight children 2–12 years old, %	53
Answered moderately, quite, or extremely competent in treating overweight adolescents 12–18 years old, %	68
Answered sometimes, frequently, or all the time discuss weight with child/adolescent patients and parents during well visit,b %	89
Answered sometimes, frequently, or all the time have success in treating pediatric patients for obesity,a %	31

^an=1 missing value.

^bn=2 missing values.