Speakers | Topics | Sessions summaries | Date | Physical attendance~ | Breakdown by provider A: RN/NPa B: Dietician C: Mental Health | Evaluation proportion (N = 23) that rated the session 1–3 (n) on 7-point Likert |
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Bariatric rehabilitation specialist | Weight bias | Explanation of weight bias. Providers should be polite to patients and they should create conducive atmosphere for them in their practice | Nov 7, 2013 | 23/27 | A: 14/14 B: 5/6 C: 4/7 | 96 % (22) |
PCN Dietitian | Emotional eating | Session highlights include: types of hunger drives, reward and stress hunger. Introducing tools that help realign hunger and balance eating Factors that distort hunger cues, inactivity and depression | Nov 21, 2013 | 20/27 | A: 11/14 B: 5/6 C: 4/7 | 96 % (22) |
Registered nurse from Weight Clinic | Clinical assessment of obesity related risk | Speaker mentioned to providers how to assess the readiness to change in patients and the use of checklist for this assessment. And that BMI is a risk assessment index and should not be used for managing the patients or setting goals | Dec 5, 2013 | 17/27 | A: 10/14 B: 4/6 C: 3/7 | 91 % (21) |
Human nutritionist | Pregnancy, post-partum, obesity | Talk was based on promoting healthy weights in pregnancy and strategies to promote healthy eating in pregnant women | Dec 19, 2013 | 20/28a | A: 12/14 B: 6/7a C: 2/7 | 78 % (18) |
Physical activity and exercise specialist | Exercise and weight management | Debunking myth around PA/exercise and the relationship between weight loss, fat mass and fat free mass | Jan 16, 2014 | 20/28 | A: 11/14 B: 6/7 C: 3/7 | 74 %(17) |
Anthropologist | Culture and the body, culture and food —perspectives on obesity | Talk emphasized the important of the cultural perspective of the patient in their dietary intake, weight gain and weight loss | Jan 30, 2014 | 22/28 | A: 11/14 B: 7/7 C:4/7 | 82 %(18) |
Department of Medicine | 5As of obesity management | The idea of weight loss plateauing’ was introduced to providers. Strategies on using the 5As of obesity management and critical conversation were highlighted to providers, followed by a providers’ role-play of the 5As card game | Feb 13, 2014 | 19/28 | A: 11/14 B: 6/7 C: 2/7 | 87 % (20) |
Family doctor | Weight gain prevention | The different evidence-based obesity prevention interventions that were available in the literature were shared with providers in this session | Feb 27, 2013 | 17/28 | A: 11/14 B: 5/7 C: 1/7 | 83 % (19) |
Psychologist | How to sustain the change | Providers were told that the goal of obesity management should be about continuous balanced healthy lifestyle and should be focused on sustainable goals. The transtheoretical model (with 5 stages of change) was also highlighted | Mar 13, 2014 | 20/28 | A: 12/14 B: 5/7 C: 3/7 | 74 % (17) |
Psychiatrist | Depression anxiety and obesity | Speaker talked about weight gain following the use of antidepressants. Speaker also encouraged the use of biological, psychological and social evaluation of depression in primary care | Mar 27, 2014 | 20/28 | A: 12/14 B: 5/7 C: 3/7 | 76 %(16) |
Provincial Bariatric Resource Team | Critical conversations | This session was on the importance of common messaging among providers and a focus on tools that can help with key conversations among providers & between providers and patients | April 10, 2014 | 18/28 | A: 11/14 B: 4/7 C: 3/7 | 60 % (12) |
PCN Nurse practitioner and Dietitian | Communication process | The focus was on the ESPCN procedures. The different effective communication strategies, internal process and ideas that improve teamwork among providers were also discussed in this session | April 24, 2014 | 17/28 | A: 9/14 B: 5/7 C: 3/7 | 50 % (10) |