Medical students' readiness to provide lifestyle counseling for overweight patients

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-13

  Foster, Kim Y ^a,b   Diehl, Nancy S ^a,b   Shaw, Darlene ^a,b   Rogers, Rebecca L ^c   Egan, Brent ^a   Carek, Peter ^a   Tomsic, Jim ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifestyle counseling; Medical student attitudes; Medical student education; Medical student health behaviors; Preventive medicine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; OBESITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0036065804     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1471-0153(01)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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