Attitudes and treatment practice of general practitioners towards patients with obesity in primary care

BMC Family Practice

Table 4 Linear regression models of the Fat Phobia Scale

	Variable	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3
	Variable	Beta-coefficient [95% CI]	Stand. Beta	p-value	Beta-coefficient [95% CI]	Stand. Beta	p-value	Beta-coefficient [95% CI]	Stand. Beta	p-value
Sociodemographic	Age	−0.017 [− 0.028, − 0.006]	−0.409	0.004	−0.018 [− 0.028, − 0.007]	−0.427	0.002	−0.018 [− 0.029, − 0.007]	−0.441	0.002
Sociodemographic	Sex (ref. male)	−0.207 [− 0.403, − 0.011]	−0.285	0.039	−0.251 [− 0.444, − 0.059]	−0.346	0.012	−0.253 [− 0.445, − 0.049]	−0.340	0.016
Treatment	Number of referred patients				−0.003 [− 0.005, 0.000]	−0.285	0.035	−0.003 [− 0.005, 0.000]	−0.275	0.055
Attribution of causes	Internal							0.086 [−0.097, 0.269]	0.128	0.348
	Knowledge							−0.016 [−0.121, 0.089]	−0.041	0.761
	External							−0.053 [−0.204, 0.099]	− 0.097	0.487

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