Table 6.

Barriers faced by residents in counseling patients on diet.

Barrier	Correlation with counseling provided	P value	% reporting as important/very important
Lack of personal interest in providing nutrition counseling	−0.19	0.04	21
Lack of clinic preceptor’s interest in nutrition	−0.18	0.05	31
Lack of proper patient education materials	−0.18	0.06	45
Patients come for a different purpose	−0.17	0.08	59
Lack of availability of health educators	−0.13	0.16	45
Insufficient reimbursement	−0.13	0.17	33
Lack of time	−0.12	0.20	69
Lack of patient interest in nutrition	0.08	0.40	52
Lack of systems for tracking and prompting nutrition counseling	−0.05	0.55	46
Cultural differences between you and your patients	0.01	0.91	25

Bold values in the table represents numbers which are statistically significant.