A qualitative inquiry about weight counseling practices in community health centers

To use qualitative methods to explore how clinicians approach weight counseling, including who they counsel, how they bring up weight, what advice they provide, and what treatment referral resources they use.Thirty primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners from four multi-clinic community health center systems (CHCs) in the state of Georgia (U.S.) completed one-on-one semi-structured interviews. Interviews were...