Table 3.

Dietary Understanding, Motivation to Change Diet, and Patient Engagement and Perception by Group

Variable	Educational Intervention Group, n=169	No Educational Intervention Group, n=151	P Value
Clinic			0.000^a
Primary care clinic, n (%)	155 (92)	45 (30)
Subspecialty care clinics, n (%)	14 (8)	106 (70)
Dietary understanding
Percentage of correct answers on a 7-question quiz	62	55	0.009^b
Motivation to change diet, mean^b
Thoughts about diet before last clinic visit^c	3.4	3.2	0.1
Thoughts about diet after last clinic visit^c	3.6	3.2	0.1
Change in thoughts about diet^c	0.2	0	0.1
Changing diet would improve health^d	4.3	4	0.07
It would be easy to make changes to diet^d	3.5	3.1	0.03
Patient engagement and perception, mean
I will ask doctor about diet^d	3.6	3.3	0.04^b
I had to wait a long time today^d	2.5	2.8	0.17^b

↵^aChi-squared test.
↵^bt test.
↵^cResponses are based on the following Likert scale: 1=never, 2=rarely, 3=occasionally, 4=regularly, 5=often.
↵^dResponses are based on the following Likert scale: 1=strongly disagree, 2=somewhat disagree, 3=neutral, 4=somewhat agree, 5=strongly agree.