Mental health clinician attitudes to the provision of preventive care for chronic disease risk behaviours and association with care provision

Table 2 Clinician reported self-efficacy regarding the provision of preventive care for four health behaviour risks: % (n) agree/strongly agree

Attitudinal Item	% (n)
1. I feel confident to talk with clients about their health risk behaviours.
Smoking	96.7 % (146)
Inadequate nutrition	96.0 % (145)
Alcohol	97.4 % (147)
Physical inactivity	98.0 % (148)
All behaviours^a	92.7 % (140)
2. I have the knowledge and skills to provide preventive care to clients regarding health risk behaviours.
Smoking	95.4 % (144)
Inadequate nutrition	90.1 % (136)
Alcohol	93.4 % (141)
Physical inactivity	95.4 % (144)
All behaviours^a	88.1 % (133)
3. There are services to which I can refer clients to change their health risk behaviours
Smoking	91.4 % (138)
Inadequate nutrition	82.1 % (124)
Alcohol	92.7 % (140)
Physical inactivity	80.1 % (121)
All behaviours^a	72.2 % (109)
4. Clients will change their health risk behaviours because of the care I provide
Smoking	86.1 % (130)
Inadequate nutrition	86.8 % (131)
Alcohol	88.1 % (133)
Physical inactivity	90.7 % (137)
All behaviours^a	76.2 % (115)

^aAll behaviours variable reflects clinicians who responded ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’ to the item for all four health risk behaviours

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