Table 2.

Baseline attitudes and barriers to counseling among Internal Medicine and Pediatric residents

Question	Percent who Agree or Strongly Agree
	All	Internal Medicine	Pediatrics	P Value
Most obese patients cannot lose enough weight to impact their health.	7%	9.1%	3.2%	0.30
I feel obese patients are lazy.	7%	10.9%	0%	0.05
I feel uncomfortable discussing weight with my patients.	17.4%	10.9%	29%	0.03
There is not enough time to counsel on obesity.	70.9%	74.5%	64.5%	0.32
Residency trains me to counsel.	24%	20%	32.3%	0.20