General practitioners' and district nurses' conceptions of the encounter with obese patients in primary health care

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hansson, Lena M ^a   Rasmussen, Finn ^a   Ahlstrom, Gerd I ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SWEDEN; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; OBESITY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SWEDEN; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 79951573710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-12-7     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Prevalence of obesity in Sweden. M Neovius A Janson S Rössner, Obes Rev 2006 7 1 3 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2006.00190.x 16436097
2. Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in Swedish primary care and occupational health clinics. J Pettersson K Johansson S Rössner M Neovius, Obes Facts 2008 1 251 257 20054186
3. Fetma - problem och åtgärder. SBU, Stockholm: The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care 2002 [In Swedish]
4. Empowerment: from philosophy to practice. C Feste RM Anderson, Patient Educ Couns 1995 26 139 144 10.1016/0738-3991(95)00730-N 7494713
5. The surgeon general's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. US Department of Health and Human Services, GPO, Washington 2001
6. Overweight and obesity: knowledge, attitudes, and practices of general practitioners in France. A Bocquier P Verger A Basdevant G Andreotti J Baretge P Villani A Paraponaris, Obes Res 2005 13 787 795 10.1038/oby.2005.89 15897489
7. Management of obesity in primary care: nurses' practices, beliefs and attitudes. I Brown C Stride A Psarou L Brewins J Thompson, J Adv Nurs 2007 59 4 329 341 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04297.x 17635298
8. A qualitative study of GPs' views of treating obesity. L Epstein J Ogden, Br J Gen Pract 2005 55 750 754 16212849 (Pubitemid 41479438)
9. Primary care physicians' attitudes about obesity and its treatment. GD Foster TA Wadden AP Makris D Davidson RS Sanderson DB Allison A Kessler, Obes Res 2003 11 1168 1177 10.1038/oby.2003.161 14569041 (Pubitemid 41127369)
10. Practice nurses' beliefs about obesity and weight related interventions in primary care. R Hoppe J Ogden, Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1997 21 141 146 10.1038/sj.ijo.0800379 9043969 (Pubitemid 27075600)
11. Nurses' attitudes towards adult patients who are obese: literature review. I Brown, J Adv Nurs 2006 53 221 232 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2006.03718.x 16422721 (Pubitemid 43455547)
12. A qualitative study of general practitioners' and practice nurses' attitudes to obesity management in primary care. SW Mercer S Tessier, Health Bull (Edinb) 2001 59 248 253 12664735
13. Physician attitudes toward managing obesity: differences among six specialty groups. JL Kristeller RA Hoerr, Prev Med 1997 26 542 549 10.1006/pmed.1997.0171 9245677 (Pubitemid 27314110)
14. Primary care nurses' attitudes, beliefs and own body size in relation to obesity management. I Brown J Thompson, J Adv Nurs 2007 60 535 543 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04450.x 17973717
15. Family-practice physicians beliefs, attitudes, and practices regarding obesity. JH Price SM Desmond RA Krol FF Snyder JK Oconnell, Am J Prev Med 1987 3 339 345 3452374 (Pubitemid 18018424)
16. Phenomenography-describing conceptions of the world around us. F Marton, Instr Science 1981 10 177 200 10.1007/BF00132516
17. Applying phenomenography in nursing research. B Sjöström LO Dahlgren, J Adv Nurs 2002 40 339 345 12383185
18. Conceptions of learning. F Marton G Dall'Alba, Int J Education Res 1993 19 277 300
19. Patients' perceptions of the concept of the quality of care in the psychiatric setting: a phenomenographic study. A Schröder G Ahlström BW Larsson, J Clin Nurs 2006 15 93 102 16390528 (Pubitemid 43455096)
20. Influencing patient adherence to treatment guidelines. SW Butterworth, J Manag Care Pharm 2008 14 21 24 18693785
21. Understanding the effects of printed health education materials: which features lead to which outcomes? FC Bull CL Holt MW Kreuter EM Clark D Scharff, J Health Commun 2001 6 265 279 10.1080/108107301752384442 11550593 (Pubitemid 33730957)
22. African Americans' perceptions of physician attempts to address obesity in the primary care setting. SH Ward AM Gray A Paranjape, J Gen Intern Med 2009 24 579 584 10.1007/s11606-009-0922-z 19277791
23. Patient-provider communication: understanding diabetes management among adult females. SM Matthews AR Peden GD Rowles, Patient Educ Couns 2009 76 31 37 10.1016/j.pec.2008.11.022 19157762
24. Weight-related perceptions among patients and physicians: how well do physicians judge patients' motivation to lose weight? CA Befort KA Greiner S Hall KM Pulvers NL Nollen A Charbonneau H Kaur JS Ahluwalia, J Gen Intern Med 2006 21 1086 1090 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00567.x 16970557 (Pubitemid 44337740)
25. Obesity in general practice. A focus group study on patient experiences. K Malterud K Ulriksen, Scand J Prim Health Care 2010 28 205 210 10.3109/02813432.2010.526773 20942741
26. Physician respect for patients with obesity. MM Huizinga LA Cooper SN Bleich JM Clark MC Beach, J Gen Intern Med 2009 24 1236 1239 10.1007/s11606-009-1104-8 19763700
27. Perceived discrimination among men and women with normal weight and obesity. A population-based study from Sweden. LM Hansson E Näslund F Rasmussen, Scand J Public Health 2010 38 587 596 10.1177/1403494810372266 20529966
28. The effectiveness and applicability of motivational interviewing: a practice-friendly review of four meta-analyses. B Lundahl B Burke, J Clin Psychol 2009 65 1232 1245 10.1002/jclp.20638 19739205
29. Engaging patients, clinicians and health funders in weight management: the Counterweight Programme. M McQuigg JE Brown JI Broom RA Laws JP Reckless PA Noble S Kumar EL McCombie ME Lean GF Lyons S Mongia GS Frost MF Quinn JH Barth SM Haynes N Finer DW Haslam HM Ross DJ Hole S Radziwonik, Fam Pract 2008 25 Suppl 1 79 i86 19042914