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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Adolesc Behav. 2015 Mar 25;3:2. doi: 10.4172/2375-4494.1000196

Table 2:

Change* in Counseling Intervention Steps Completed from Baseline to 3-Month Follow-up among Clinicians (N=10) Stratified by Patient Weight Status.

Baseline Follow-up Difference
Frequency** of Intervention Steps Taken Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) 95% Conf. (Interval) p-value
With Obese Adolescent Patients
Shared BMI with adolescent 3.1 (0.93) 3.7 (0.50) 0.6 (0.73) 1.11 (0.00) 0.05
Explained recommended BMI 2.2 (1.14) 2.9 (1.10) 0.7 (0.95) 1.38 (0.02) 0.04
Scheduled a follow-up visit 2.4 (0.70) 3.0 (1.05) 0.6 (0.84) 1.20 (0.00) 0.05
Referred adolescent to other resources 2.3 (0.67) 2.7 (0.82) 0.4 (0.52) 0.77 (0.03) 0.04
With Overweight Adolescent Patients
Discussed healthy diet and physical activity 3.4 (0.52) 4.0 (0.00) 0.6 (0.52) 0.97 (0.23) 0.01
*

Only significant changes shown.

**

Scale of 1 (lowest) to 4 (highest) frequency.

Mean comparisons conducted using paired t-tests. P-values ≤ 0.05 were considered to be statistically significant.