Counseling on lifestyle habits in the United States and Sweden: a report comparing primary care health professionals’ perspectives on lifestyle counseling in terms of scope, importance and competence

Table 1 **T-test comparing years of practice between those health professionals selecting very much vs. those selecting some other option for three* of the healthy lifestyle counseling question**

Probability table	How important is it to provide advice?				To what extent are you counseling?				To what extent do you have expertise?
	*U.S.*		*Sweden*		*U.S.*		*Sweden*		*U.S.*		*Sweden*
	‘very’	‘other’	‘very’	‘other’	‘very’	‘other’	‘very’	‘other’	‘very’	‘other’	‘very’	‘other’
Tobacco use	16.7	13.0	21.4	12.3	17.0	15.5	23.2	19.1	19.2	14.2	23.3	19.7
Alcohol use	15.6	20.9	21.1	17.4	17.6	15.9	23.1	19.3	20.0	14.9	24.4	19.5
Physical activity	16.0	21.8	21.9	16.1	15.5	18.6	23.1	19.6	18.3	15.3	25.6	19.2
Eating habits	16.3	18.8	25.0	18.9	15.6	18.2	23.4	19.3	17.1	16.4	24.9	19.7

Values in bold are significant at at least the .05 level.
*The comparison of years of practice and those selecting very much vs. other was not conducted for the question relating to changing extent of counseling, as it would be difficult to interpret what this comparison actually means without conditioning on the subjects other responses, which would create scarcity issues.

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