Table 1.
Characteristics of survey respondents
| Overall (N = 607) | Agree with upper BMI restrictions (N = 410) | Disagree with upper BMI restrictions (N = 183) | Maternal–fetal medicine (N = 398) | Reproductive endocrinology and infertility (N = 201) | p value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | p value* | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Age (years) | |||||||
| 30–35 | 62 (10.6) | 44 (11.2) | 18 (9.9) | 0.66 | 33 (8.4) | 27 (14.8) | 0.06 |
| 36–49 | 210 (35.8) | 143 (36.5) | 61 (33.7) | 146 (37.0) | 63 (34.4) | ||
| 50+ | 314 (53.6) | 205 (52.3) | 102 (56.4) | 216 (54.7) | 93 (50.8) | ||
| No response | 21 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 18 | ||
| Sex | |||||||
| Male | 318 (52.7) | 201 (49.3) | 110 (60.4) | 0.01 | 202 (51.0) | 112 (56.0) | 0.25 |
| Female | 286 (47.4) | 207 (50.7) | 72 (39.6) | 194 (49.0) | 88 (44.0) | ||
| No response | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 450 (80.5) | 304 (80.9) | 136 (79.5) | 0.34 | 292 (80.2) | 152 (80.4) | 0.05 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 27 (4.8) | 16 (4.3) | 11 (6.4) | 22 (6.0) | 5 (2.7) | ||
| Hispanic | 26 (4.7) | 19 (5.1) | 6 (3.5) | 14 (3.9) | 12 (6.4) | ||
| Asian | 51 (9.1) | 32 (8.5) | 18 (10.5) | 35 (9.6) | 16 (8.5) | ||
| Other | 5 (0.9) | 5 (1.3) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.3) | 4 (2.1) | ||
| No response | 48 | 34 | 12 | 34 | 12 | ||
| Region | |||||||
| USA, Northeast | 162 (27.7) | 115 (29.1) | 46 (25.7) | 0.67 | 111 (28.4) | 49 (26.3) | <0.001 |
| USA, Southeast | 119 (20.3) | 78 (19.8) | 36 (20.1) | 68 (17.4) | 50 (26.9) | ||
| USA, Midwest | 131 (22.4) | 89 (22.5) | 39 (21.8) | 93 (23.8) | 33 (17.7) | ||
| USA, Southwest | 41 (7.0) | 30 (7.6) | 11 (6.2) | 31 (7.9) | 10 (5.4) | ||
| USA, West | 116 (19.8) | 72 (18.2) | 43 (24.0) | 87 (22.3) | 29 (15.6) | ||
| USA, no region specified | 7 (1.2) | 6 (1.5) | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 7 (3.8) | ||
| Outside USA | 9 (1.5) | 5 (1.3) | 3 (1.7) | 1 (0.3) | 8 (4.3) | ||
| No response | 22 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 15 | ||
| Training in weight loss counseling | |||||||
| Yes, I have received formal training | 109 (18.5) | 79 (19.7) | 30 (16.6) | 0.17 | 69 (17.7) | 39 (20.4) | 0.40 |
| No, but I have acquired the knowledge elsewhere | 371 (62.9) | 257 (63.9) | 110 (60.8) | 244 (62.4) | 122 (63.9) | ||
| No, I could not provide adequate counseling | 110 (18.6) | 66 (16.4) | 41 (22.7) | 78 (20.0) | 30 (15.7) | ||
| No response | 17 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 10 | ||
Abbreviations: body mass index (BMI)
*p values were computed using a chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test (when > 20% of cells had expected counts < 5 and at least one cell had expected count < 1) for categorical comparisons and t test allowing for unequal variances for comparisons of means