Information about life expectancy related to obesity is most important to cat owners when deciding whether to act on a veterinarian's weight loss recommendation.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: American Veterinary Medical Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7503067 Publication Model: Electronic-Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1943-569X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00031488 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Am Vet Med Assoc Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Mar. 1975- : Schaumburg, Ill. : American Veterinary Medical Association
      Original Publication: Ithaca, N.Y. : [American Veterinary Medical Association, 1915]-
    • Subject Terms:
      Obesity*/veterinary ; Cat Diseases* ; Life Expectancy* ; Ownership* ; Veterinarians*/psychology; Cats ; Animals ; Humans ; Male ; Female ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Adult ; Middle Aged ; Weight Loss ; Aged
    • Abstract:
      Objective: To determine the relative importance of information communicated to cat owners during veterinarian-client obesity-related conversations.
      Sample: Cat owner participants recruited via snowball sampling.
      Methods: A cross-sectional online questionnaire was distributed to cat owners who owned cats of any weight status. A discrete choice experiment design was used to determine the relative importance of obesity-related attributes to cat owners when receiving information from a veterinarian.
      Results: A total of 1,095 questionnaires were analyzed. Participating cat owners resided primarily in Canada and the US. Impact on life expectancy was the most important attribute that would encourage participants to pursue weight management for a cat with obesity (relative importance, 32.66%), followed by change to cost of food (20.40%), future quality of life (20.38%), future mobility (14.40%), and risk of developing diabetes (12.15%).
      Clinical Relevance: Findings suggest that cat owners consider the impact on life expectancy to be most important when considering whether to follow a veterinarian's recommendation for their cat to lose weight. When veterinary professionals are communicating about obesity in practice, there is the potential to increase owner engagement in weight management efforts for cats by emphasizing the obesity-related information owners prefer to receive.
    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: communication; discrete choice experiment; feline; obesity; veterinary
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240321 Date Completed: 20240528 Latest Revision: 20240528
    • Publication Date:
      20240529
    • Accession Number:
      10.2460/javma.23.12.0703
    • Accession Number:
      38513353