Purpose: To understand the motivations of rural-practicing primary care clinicians who
participate in an intensive multiyear pragmatic randomized behavioral obesity intervention …

Background Clinical trial implementation continues to shift toward pragmatic design, with the
goal of increasing future adoption in clinical practice. Yet, few pragmatic trials within clinical …

Obesity disproportionately affects rural residents in the United States, and primary care has
the potential to fill a major gap in the provision of weight management services for rural …

Objective To report on patients' satisfaction and experience of care across three different
modes of weight loss counseling. Methods 1407 patients with obesity in the rural Midwest …

Background Obesity is a major risk factor behind some of the most common problems
encountered in primary care. Although effective models for obesity treatment have been …

Rationale: Feasible approaches for providing obesity treatment in primary care settings have
been difficult to identify. We assessed the views of primary care clinicians and practice staff …

Primary care offices are critical access points for obesity treatment, but evidence for
approaches that can be implemented within these settings is limited. The Think Health …

Community Connections: Linking Primary Care Patients to Local Resources for Better
Management of Obesity is a toolkit based on research conducted by the State Networks of …

Introduction: Pragmatic trials are needed to establish evidence-based obesity treatment in
primary care settings, particularly in community health centers (CHCs) that serve …

Obesity is a national problem and one of great concern to many family medicine
departments. That's scarcely surprising given that an epidemic like obesity is unlikely to be …