Physician-reported practices regarding obesity management in patients aged under 60 years with osteoarthritis in Jordan: a cross-sectional survey

In a Jordan cross-sectional convenience survey of 308 physicians treating osteoarthritis patients under 60, obesity counselling, weight/BMI monitoring, and referrals were inconsistently reported.

• Why it matters: Obesity is a modifiable risk factor for osteoarthritis, but little is known about how physicians in Jordan address obesity in younger OA patients.
• What they did: From Dec 2021 to Jan 2022, physicians from orthopaedics, family medicine, internal medicine, and rheumatology completed an anonymous survey on counselling, weight/BMI monitoring, consultation time, and referrals.
• The result: Only 8.4% monitored weight or BMI in almost all target patients and 10.1% referred for weight-reduction interventions in almost all; counselling about weight-bearing joints was reported for almost all by 27.6%.

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