Table 5.
What Factors Might Help Change Your Mind to Recommend a WFPB Diet (n = 173).
| Strongly disagree/disagree (1-2) | Neutral (3) | Agree/strongly agree (4-5) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | Mean | SD | |
| Seeing that a whole-foods, plant-based diet works for others in clinical practice | 15 | 9 | 22 | 13 | 136 | 79 | 3.88 | 0.88 |
| Getting more information or evidence in general | 16 | 9 | 37 | 21 | 120 | 69 | 3.81 | 0.97 |
| Seeing a nutritionally complete and detailed whole-foods, plant-based meal plan | 21 | 12 | 32 | 18 | 120 | 69 | 3.75 | 0.98 |
| Attending a whole-foods, plant-based cooking class as an elective in medical school | 37 | 21 | 34 | 20 | 102 | 59 | 3.41 | 1.05 |
| Doing my own research on whole-foods, plant-based nutrition | 39 | 23 | 34 | 20 | 100 | 58 | 3.39 | 1.07 |
| Incorporating more whole-foods, plant-based nutrition into current medical school classes | 35 | 20 | 43 | 25 | 95 | 55 | 3.34 | 0.98 |
| Attending a whole-foods, plant-based nutrition elective in medical school | 42 | 24 | 43 | 25 | 88 | 51 | 3.29 | 0.99 |
| If more focus were put on whole-foods, plant-based nutrition on national boards or shelf examinations | 50 | 29 | 39 | 23 | 82 | 48 | 3.23 | 1.14 |
| Adding whole-foods, plant-based nutrition competencies to internal medicine and/or family medicine residency requirements | 48 | (28%) | 39 | (23%) | 86 | (50%) | 3.23 | (1.11) |
| Adding whole-foods, plant-based nutrition competencies to cardiology licensure requirements | 48 | 28 | 50 | 29 | 75 | 43 | 3.15 | 1.05 |
Abbreviation: WFPB diet, whole-foods, plant-based diet.