Table 6.

Influence of Continuing Education on Clinicians' Competence, Attitudes, and Self-Rated Treatment Approaches

Variable	Diversity education r (p value)	Obesity education r (p value)
Successful treating pediatric patients for obesity	0.06 (0.60)	0.24 (0.04)
	N=74	N=74
Competent treating overweight children ages 2–12 years	0.08 (0.51)	0.31 (0.01)
	N=75	N=75
Competent treating overweight adolescents ages 12–18 years	0.08 (0.50)	0.30 (0.01)
	N=75	N=75
Implicit weight attitude	0.04 (0.76)	−0.20 (0.14)
	N=56	N=56
Implicit race attitude	−0.14 (0.28)	−0.23 (0.08)
	N=58	N=58
Explicit race attitude	−0.14 (0.27)	0.02 (0.89)
	N=63	N=63
Explicit weight attitude	−0.24 (0.06)	−0.01 (0.91)
	N=62	N=62
Treatment behaviors (Factor 1)	0.17 (0.14)	0.21 (0.08)
	N=73	N=73
Referral/prescribing behaviors (Factor 2)	0.22 (0.05)	−0.01 (0.94)
	N=74	N=74

A positive correlation means that continuing education in the past 12 months is associated with a higher value for “variable”;

r=Pearson's correlation coefficient. Statistically significant results are indicated in bold.