Table 5.

Qualitative results: summary of opinions of family physicians about barriers for childhood obesity management in primary care (25 in-depth interviews).

Barriers for childhood obesity management in primary care
Barriers related to the healthcare system	Barriers related to parents/ families	Barriers related to physicians
Excess workload of the primary healthcare services in Turkey The ‘treatment’ focus of current primary healthcare system FHCs are not being used for healthy child (5–15 years old) follow-ups Lack of integration between primary and secondary care	Positive attitude of parents towards overweight/obese child Knowledge deficiency of parents about healthy nutrition	Lack of knowledge and training regarding management of CO Lack of motivation

FHCs, family health centres; CO, childhood obesity.