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19
th
International Conference on
Obesity, Healthcare - Nutrition & Fitness
March 18 - 19, 2019 | New York, USA
Design a toolkit to
improve obesity
management in
primary care
Soonduck Lee and Yue Song
Columbia university, USA
T
he prevalence of obesity
increases health risk and
adds a financial burden to
our nation. In 2012, the US
Preventive Service Task Force
recommended obesity and
overweight interventions
in primary care settings.
Although evidence shows
patients are more likely to
lose weight when they are
advised to do so by their
PCP, obesity patients do not
receive adequate counseling
in primary care settings. There
is an urgent need to find
simple, effective strategies
for improving weight-loss
counseling in primary practice.
A meta-analysis showed
that behavioral intervention
targeting a reduced calorie
diet, increased physical activity,
and behavioral therapy has a
statistically significant effect on
weight loss. Currently, there
are no specific guidelines
or recommendations for
PCPs on how to intervene in
the obese population. We
found a scarcity of strategies
for obesity management
addressing clinicians’ working
environment and patients’
average intellectual capacity
for obesity prevention.
Furthermore, physician
compensation report in 2016
revealed PCPs frequently
fail in nutrition and weight
management counseling
due to heavy workload,
insufficient reimbursement,
and lack of training in obesity
management. Therefore,
we designed a simplified
toolkit including an obesity
counseling algorithm based
on Obesity Algorithm 2016-
2017 of the Obesity Medicine
Association and a patient
education handout focus
on healthy eating, portion
control, and food label reading
endorsed by U.S. Department
of Agriculture. To explore the
possibility of utilization of
the toolkit, we surveyed 13
clinicians in different primary
care settings. Survey reveals
that 84.6% of clinicians
agree or strongly agree the
toolkit reflects updated
and succinct information of
obesity treatment guidelines.
Approximately 76.9% of
clinicians think the algorithm
is helpful in decision making,
and 84% of them are more
motivated to provide obesity
intervention by using the
toolkit. Although 69.2% of
them claim would recommend
the toolkit to their colleagues,
92.3% of providers believe the
patient handout will help them
providing obesity counseling
more efficiently or increasing
patients’ engagement. Our
approach has the potential to
improve the engagement of
both providers and patients
in a primary care setting
to manage obesity more
effectively, with the likelihood
of the patient handout having
extended impact if it is
transferred from patients to
their families and friends.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
JOURNAL OF OBESITY &WEIGHT LOSS THERAPY 2019, VOLUME: 4 | DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C2-094