A cross-sectional study assessing Australian general practice patients’ intention, reasons and preferences for assistance with losing weight

Table 5 Proportion of overweight or obese general practice patients intending to lose weight in the next six months who report that they would be willing to accept weight support services delivered via different mediums

Delivery of weight support services	% that have access	Overweight (n = 300)			Obese (n = 255)			Test statistic	Design based degrees of freedom	p-value
Delivery of weight support services	% that have access	n	%^a	95% CI	n	%^a	95% CI	Test statistic	Design based degrees of freedom	p-value
Telephone	100	265	89	[85, 91]	223	88	[77, 94]	0.2	(2.2, 24)	0.8
Email	85	136	45	[40, 41]	105	41	[36, 47]	1.5	(2.8, 31)	0.2
Short messaging service (SMS)	93	128	43	[34, 52]	94	37	[29, 46]	1.1	(2.8, 30)	0.4
Online chat room	83	104	35	[31, 39]	69	27	[24, 30]	2.2	(2.4, 27)	0.1
Smart phone /tablet application	43	80	27	[23, 30]	68	27	[21, 34]	0.5	(2.4, 26)	0.6

*Not equal to total intending to lose weight due to incomplete surveys.
^a Percentages were of all intending to lose weight that report being willing to accept support via these mediums.

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