Obesity management and continuing medical education in primary care: results of a Swiss survey

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Ordered logistic regression assessing the crude-and multivariate association between waist measurement^a and CME

	OR	95%-CI	p-value
Crude association
Nr. days attending obesity related CME
< 1 day	1.00
1-3 days	2.10	0.96-4.54	0.062
> 3 days	4.36	1.85-10.28	0.001
Model 1*
Nr. days attending obesity related CME
< 1 day	1.00
1-3 days	2.20	0.81-5.94	0.12
> 3 days	4.18	1.20-12.46	0.014
Model 2**
Nr. days attending obesity related CME
< 1 day	1.00
1-3 days	2.14	0.78-5.87	0.14
> 3 days	3.87	1.20-12.46	0.023

^a Performing waist measurement: performing 10-50% or > 50% vs. < 10%
*Model 1 adjusted for GP characteristics including age, sex, work load, work setting, professional experience, number of patients a week, feeling more confident in handling cardiovascular risk factors/obesity due to the membership in networks
**Model 2 additionally controlled for percentage of obese patients

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