. 2022 Nov 7;10(11):2222. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10112222

Table 1.

Factors associated with general practitioners’ levels of nutritional knowledge, confidence and self-efficacy in nutrition counselling skills.

Factors Associated with General Practitioners’ Levels of Nutritional Knowledge	Factors Associated with General Practitioners’ Confidence in Nutrition Counselling Skills	Factors Associated with General Practitioners’ Self-Efficacy in Nutrition Counselling Skills
Gender ¹	Type of patient’s diagnosis	Gender
Age ¹	Patient subgroup	Age
Medical school curricula dedicated to nutrition		Medical school curricula dedicated to nutrition
Additional/continuing medical education dedicated to nutrition		Additional/continuing medical education dedicated to nutrition
Acquired specialisation ¹		Acquired specialisation
Years of experience		Ambulatory placement during residency
Suffering from nutrition-related chronic diseases		Country in which the training was obtained

¹ Some of the studies failed to confirm the connection between gender, age and acquired specialisation and general practitioners’ levels of nutritional knowledge [39,42,43,44].