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Area of Science:

  • General Practice
  • Obesity Management
  • Health Behavior Change

Background:

  • Opportunistic weight loss interventions are crucial for managing obesity.
  • General Practitioners (GPs) play a key role in delivering these interventions.
  • Understanding GPs' perspectives on these interventions is essential for effective implementation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate General Practitioners' (GPs) thoughts, feelings, and practices regarding opportunistic weight loss interventions.
  • To assess changes in GPs' attitudes and confidence before and after educational training and practical application.
  • To identify barriers and facilitators influencing the delivery of weight loss interventions in primary care.

Main Methods:

  • An embedded sequential mixed-methods design was employed.
  • 137 GPs delivered a brief opportunistic intervention to patients with obesity.
  • Pre- and post-trial questionnaires and purposive interviews with 18 GPs were used for data collection and analysis.

Main Results:

  • GPs reported predominantly improved attitudes, capacities, and intentions regarding weight loss interventions post-trial.
  • The trial setting facilitated GPs' comfort in discussing obesity and depersonalizing intervention.
  • Post-trial, GPs largely reverted to not intervening, citing previously overcome barriers.

Conclusions:

  • GPs experienced positive shifts in beliefs regarding the importance, feasibility, and acceptability of weight loss interventions.
  • Apprehension about intervening without a prompt was noted among GPs outside the trial setting.
  • System-level prompts may be necessary to support the sustained implementation of opportunistic weight loss interventions by GPs.