Table 2.

Participant ratings of appropriateness and helpfulness of brief intervention^a

Rating	Self-payment (n= 60)^b	NHS-funded^c (n= 940)^b
Appropriateness
Patients included in analysis, n	59	921
Not at all appropriate	2 (3)	4 (<1)
Not appropriate	2 (3)	11 (1)
Neither appropriate nor inappropriate	5 (8)	55 (6)
Appropriate	32 (54)	400 (43)
Very appropriate	18 (31)	451 (49)

Helpfulness
Patients included in analysis, n	59	922
Not at all helpful	2 (3)	5 (1)
Not helpful	0 (0)	19 (2)
Neither helpful nor unhelpful	11 (19)	85 (9)
Helpful	26 (44)	442 (48)
Very helpful	20 (34)	371 (40)

↵a Data are presented as number (%) unless stated otherwise.
↵b Patients who did not return to the researcher to complete the assessment were not included in the analysis.
↵c Brief Intervention for Weight Loss trial.