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Primary care physicians' knowledge and perceived barriers in the management of overweight and obesity.

This article is from Journal of Family & Community Medicine , volume 20 . Abstract Objectives:: To determine the level of knowledge of primary health care physicians and the barriers perceived in the management of overweight and obesity in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Setting:: Primary health care centers in Dammam and Al-Khobar cities, Saudi Arabia. Design:: A cross-sectional study. Materials and Methods:: One hundred and forty-nine physicians were surveyed. Data were collected with a specially made anonymous, self-administrated, structured questionnaire with a Cronbach alpha reliability of 0.85, and content validity by five experts was used to measure the knowledge and barriers from several different aspects of care provided by primary health care centers to the overweight and obese. Results:: One hundred and thirty (87%) physicians responded. More than two-thirds of the respondents considered themselves as key players in the management of obesity. However, only one-third believed that they were well prepared to treat obesity. Eighty-three per cent of the respondents had a negative attitude toward the concept of overweight and obesity. It was noted that 76.9% of physicia

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